It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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