Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATON
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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