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.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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