When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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