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, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

  Alan Paton

  Men  

  ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”

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• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

  Alan Paton

  Running  

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Giving   Unborn Child   Too Much  

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

  Alan Paton

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• There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

  Alan Paton

  Men  

  "Power Verbs for Career Consultants, Coaches, and Mentors". Book by Michael Lawrence Faulkner (p.126), 2013.

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• Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

  Alan Paton

  1994

• Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

  887

• Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

  Alan Paton

  2059

• 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 haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

  Alan Paton

  292

• 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 is afraid for his house. 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

  Men  

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  Alan Paton

  Men  

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

  Alan Paton

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• There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

  Alan Paton

  Running  

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

  Alan Paton

  Children  

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• I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

  Alan Paton

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• Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

  Alan Paton

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• 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 will rob him of all if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Country   Children   Giving  

  Felicia Komai, Alan Paton (1955). “Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama”

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• All roads lead to Johannesburg.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

  Alan Paton

  Men  

  Alan Paton, Colin Oxenham Gardner (1975). “Knocking on the Door”, David Philip Publishers

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• Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

  Alan Paton

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• 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

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  Alan Paton

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