Quotes of Alan Paton - somelinesforyou

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

- Alan Paton

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

- Alan Paton

“ 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

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

- 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

“ 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

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

- Alan Paton

“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”

- Alan Paton

“ 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

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

- Alan Paton

“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”

- 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. ”

- 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

“ 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

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

- Alan Paton

“ When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”

- Alan Paton

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

- Alan Paton

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

- Alan Paton

“ 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

“ When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”

- 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

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

- Alan Paton

“ God forgives us... Who am I not to forgive? ”

- Alan Paton

“ When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”

- Alan Paton

“ Life 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

“ Life 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

“ 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

“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”

- Alan Paton

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

- Alan Paton

“ When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”

- Alan Paton
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