Alan Paton Quotes (11 quotations)
1. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving. - Alan Paton
2. I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. - Alan Paton
3. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating. - Alan Paton
4. If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. - Alan Paton
5. The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. - Alan Paton
6. Then you take it all-the chronology, the letters, the interviews, your own knowledge, the newspaper cuttings, the history books, the diary, the thousand hours of contemplation, and you try to make a whole of it, not a chronicle but a drama, with a beginning and an end, the whole being given form and integrity because a man moves through it from birth to death, through all the beauty and terror of human life. - Alan Paton
7. 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
8. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton
9. What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? - Alan Paton
10. Who knows 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
11. You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. - Alan Paton
2. I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. - Alan Paton
3. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating. - Alan Paton
4. If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. - Alan Paton
5. The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. - Alan Paton
6. Then you take it all-the chronology, the letters, the interviews, your own knowledge, the newspaper cuttings, the history books, the diary, the thousand hours of contemplation, and you try to make a whole of it, not a chronicle but a drama, with a beginning and an end, the whole being given form and integrity because a man moves through it from birth to death, through all the beauty and terror of human life. - Alan Paton
7. 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
8. To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton
9. What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? - Alan Paton
10. Who knows 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
11. You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. - Alan Paton
