Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONI 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.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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 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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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