What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – 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, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. – Alan Paton
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre