Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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