Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONFor mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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