What Quote » Novelist Quotes » Quotes by Alan Paton »

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor o...  
God forgives us... Who am I not to forgive?  
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world w...  
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites ...  
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central ...  
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destro...  
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man ...  
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsib...  
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?  
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write m...  
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.