Alan Paton

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ↗

— Alan Paton

#forgiveness

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. ↗

— Alan Paton

#love #love

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

#humanity #inhumanity #life #man #only

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already. ↗

— Alan Paton

#alan-paton #cry-the-beloved-country #life

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#free man #give #man #reforming #responsibility

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. ↗

— Alan Paton

#completely #love #loves #man #one thing

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. ↗

— Alan Paton

#contribution #creative #different #each #envision

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ↗

— Alan Paton

#expedient #right #you #yourself

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ↗

— Alan Paton

#bring #broke #could #himself #kill