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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

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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

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Wisdom
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Alan Paton
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In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. – Cesar Chavez

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Violence

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you dont make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life. – Russell Hoban

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Violence

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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Violence

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence

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A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Those minutes that Im on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs. – Miley Cyrus

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. – Albert Camus

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Ive been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really dont need the publics money. – George Michael

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