Alan Paton Quotes

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forg...

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none ...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love th...

All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If t...

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, a...

They were your friends?""Yes, they were my friends.""And they will leave you to suffer alone?""Now I...

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the ...

— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked a...

Have you a room that you could let?""Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let i...

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not...

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to u...

When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings o...

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, “Where are your wounds?” an...

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inev...

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's o...