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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

Other quotes by Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

Category:
Society
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Alan Paton
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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

Category:
Wisdom
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Alan Paton
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Violence
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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. – John Frederick Boyes

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Violence

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Violence

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. – Gandhi

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Violence

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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Violence

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Why should any man have power over any other mans faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? – George Fox

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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. – Arthur Koestler

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sad

Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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