Quote

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Paton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
Author
Autobiographer
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
Alen Peṭon
Permissible
Destroying
Family
Life

More quotes by Alan Paton

Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
Alan Paton
Image
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
Alan Paton
Image
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
Image
It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Alan Paton
Image
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
Alan Paton
Image
Happy the eyes that can close
Alan Paton
Image
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan Paton
Image
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
Alan Paton
Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
Image
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton
Image
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
Alan Paton
Image
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
Alan Paton
Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton