Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
More Alan Paton Quotes
-
-
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON -
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON -
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
ALAN PATON -
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
ALAN PATON -
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
ALAN PATON -
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON -
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
ALAN PATON -
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON -
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON -
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON -
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATON -
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
ALAN PATON -
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATON -
Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATON -
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATON