Alan Paton Quotes

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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

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Mistake

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

  Alan Paton

  Men, Killing Each Other, Violence

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

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• The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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  Broken, Tragedy, Cry The Beloved Country

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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.

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  Strong, Rich, Poor

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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, Inhumanity To Man, Way

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

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• When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Giving Up, Responsibility, Men

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• 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)

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  Beautiful, Fighting, Land

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

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  Life, Standards, Asks

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• 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 laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Country, Children

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

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• 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.

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  Journey, Men, House

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

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• 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

  Love, Peace, Pride

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

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  Morbid, Preoccupation, Found

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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

  Christian, Believe, Suffering

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

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

  Alan Paton

  Love, Fear, Belief

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

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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

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, 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, Names, Add

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

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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

  Life, Inspiring, Men

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

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• But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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  Love, Men, One Thing

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• 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.

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  Hard Work, School, Church

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

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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.

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  Running, Lovely, Singing

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

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• Happy the eyes that can close

  Alan Paton

  Eye, Cry The Beloved Country

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Sorrow, Arriving

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

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

  Alan Paton

  Offence

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

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• 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.

  Alan Paton

  Christian, Country, Practice

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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