Alan Paton Quotes

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. - Alan Paton

Who knows what life is, for life is a secret. - Alan Paton

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

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

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? - Alan Paton

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

This year the crop tends towards the personal, the particular and the recreational. This, the judges believe, points to a society considerably more at ease with itself... - Alan Paton

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

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. - Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. - Alan Paton

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