Alan Paton Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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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 hating.

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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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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 my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

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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 of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

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