"Ask yourself not if this or that is……" — Alan Paton
"Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."
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63 Quotes by Alan Paton
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and…
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from…
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in…
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it…
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can…
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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…
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