What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONThere is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONAnd 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.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONWise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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