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?
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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