Quotes by : Alan Paton

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all....

— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked....

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts.....

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable....

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

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

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not....

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

I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of....

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.....