Alan Paton
Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Patonwas a South African author and anti-apartheid activist...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1903
habit could-have-been has-beens
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
men inhumanity-to-man trying
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.
johannesburg
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
fear belief power-of-love
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
secret dawn cry-the-beloved-country
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
pride creative peaceful
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.
destroy himself nowhere rather
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
knows life secret
who knows what life is, for life is a secret
men cry-the-beloved-country broke
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
men inhumanity-to-man way
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
christian country practice
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
running country children
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
journey sorrow arriving
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
running singing lovely
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....