And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONI 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 PATONWise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
ALAN PATONFor who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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 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 PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONThe Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATONKeep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThe truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
ALAN PATON