People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.
Louis L'AmourStrange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.
Louis L'AmourEs wird eine Zeit kommen, in der man glaubt, dass alles zu Ende ist. Das wird der Anfang sein.
Louis L'AmourThere is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.
Louis L'AmourTo die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
Louis L'AmourIn the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.
Louis L'AmourOften I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.
Louis L'AmourTags: education-of-a-wandering-man
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
Louis L'AmourOne thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Louis L'AmourWe do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
Louis L'AmourTags: education-of-a-wandering-man
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