Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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