What 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 PATONAnd were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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 PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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 PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATON