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One Quotes by Alan Paton
- To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
- But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
- 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
- One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
- 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…
- There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
- I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to…
- There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties…
- There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one…
- I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
- I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find…
- I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating
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