All Alan Paton Quotes
- St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives… Ask
- But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. All
- For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. All
- When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. Abate
- And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money… Children
- But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Better
- Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.… Endeavor
- The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men,… Came
- When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Deep
- If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Africa
- Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear… All
- The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. Broken
- It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. Destroying
- Happy the eyes that can close Close
- Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not… Beloved
- Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for… Kindness
- 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… Day
- The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… Charity
- There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties… All
- 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, then… Brewed
- There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one… Counsel
- When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I… Ah
- Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. Arriving
- There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will… All
- The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges… According