But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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