Alan Paton
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.Collection: Dawn
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?Collection: Heart
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.Collection: Hard Work
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.Collection: Fool
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.Collection: Christian
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.Collection: Cry The Beloved Country
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.Collection: Law
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.Collection: St Francis Of Assisi
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.Collection: Dream
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.Collection: Men
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.Collection: Men
All roads lead to Johannesburg.Collection: Johannesburg
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.Collection: Home
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.Collection: Running
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continueCollection: Finished