All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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