In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
More Alan Paton Quotes
-
-
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATON -
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
ALAN PATON -
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON -
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATON -
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
ALAN PATON -
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATON -
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 PATON -
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATON -
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATON -
I 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 PATON -
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON -
I 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 PATON -
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATON -
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON -
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON