The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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