What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
More Alan Paton Quotes
-
-
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 -
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATON -
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATON -
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
ALAN PATON -
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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 -
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATON -
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATON -
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATON -
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON -
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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 -
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATON -
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATON -
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON