Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONWhen I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONBehind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONIn the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONbecause life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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