When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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