Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONSt. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONSadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATONThere 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.
ALAN PATONI 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.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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