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.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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