We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATONBuilding on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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