Alan Paton Quotes

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

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

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 of possessions.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

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.

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

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?