And money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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What 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?
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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