Alan Paton Quotes

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• To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
• Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
• But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
• For who can stop the heart from breaking?
• 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…
• There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify…
• One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
• One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
• All roads lead to Johannesburg.
• Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
• It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has…
• Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
• Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose…
• Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
• I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
• Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
• Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
• 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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