Quote

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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
Capitulate
Thats
Nowhere
Destroy
Rather
Would

More quotes by Alan Paton

Image
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
Alan Paton
Image
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan Paton
Image
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton
Image
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton
Image
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
Alan Paton
Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
Alan Paton
Image
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
Alan Paton
Image
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
Alan Paton
Image
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton
Image
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
Image
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
Image
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton