I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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