Famous Alan Paton Quotations

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

by Alan Paton

"Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving."

by Alan Paton

"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."

by 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."

by Alan Stewart Paton

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

by Alan Paton

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

by Alan Paton

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

by Alan Stewart Paton

"Who knows why 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."

by Alan Stewart Paton

"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."

by Alan Paton