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, and that is exploitation.
Alan PatonWe do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan PatonBut the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan PatonWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
Alan Paton