There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATON
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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