It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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