Alan Paton

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. read more

Who knows 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.

There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's read more

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.

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

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

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned read more

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.

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

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