But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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 PATONWhat 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 PATONI have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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 PATONThe sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONFor it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON