The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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