To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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