Jan Smuts Inspirational Quotes (8)

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparate phenomena, yet the concepts of all three arise in experience and in the human all three meet and intermingle.

Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul they became the sharers of my confidence.