When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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