I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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… - Alan Paton
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…
- Alan Paton
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. - Alan Paton
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. - Alan Paton
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 man's humanity to man. - Alan Paton
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 man's humanity to man.
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there no… - Alan Paton
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there no…
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making … - Alan Paton
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making …
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 only one true name, … - Alan Paton
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 only one true name, …
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. - Alan Paton
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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 of our lives,… - Alan Paton
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 of our lives,…
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