"What broke in a man when he could……" — Alan Paton
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? 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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Alan Paton
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63 Quotes by Alan Paton
Alan Paton has 63 quotes on this site.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
— William Shakespeare
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work…
— John Milton
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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that…
— George Orwell
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed…
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You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that…
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Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of…
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