The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONAsk yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
More Alan Paton Quotes
-
-
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON -
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATON -
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATON -
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON -
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON -
And 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 PATON -
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
ALAN PATON -
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATON -
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATON -
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
ALAN PATON -
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATON -
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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