I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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