When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields,… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.” — Alan Paton Copy Share
“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is… — Alan Paton Copy Share
“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” — Alan Paton Copy Share
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share
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 Copy Share
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton Copy Share
“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come… — Alan Paton Copy Share
“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.” — Alan Paton Copy Share
“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense… — Alan Paton Copy Share
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.… — Alan Paton Copy Share
“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,… — Alan Paton Copy Share
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man… — Alan Paton Copy Share
“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring… — Alan Paton Copy Share
