Alan Paton Quotes about Heart

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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Alan Paton

Country, Hate, Heart

Cry, the Beloved Country ch. 7 (1948)

What 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

Heart, Eye, Gun

Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster