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- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. — Benjamin Disraeli
- A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten". — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 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
- If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. — Alan Paton
- 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