Alan Paton Giving Quotations

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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