And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATON
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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