But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. |
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. |
Cry, the beloved country. |
God forgives us... Who am I not to forgive? |
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 its own creative contribution. |
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating. |
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating |
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. |
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. |
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. |
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. |
This year the crop tends towards the personal, the particular and the recreational. This, the judges believe, points to a society considerably more at ease with itself... |
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. |
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? |
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive |