01c. 1948 ADviolence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADWithout books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
03c. 1948 ADI've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADIt is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADI do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADShe'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
07c. 1948 ADNo man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
08c. 1948 ADI really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
09c. 1948 ADI like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADA writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it firstLouis L'Amour / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADIf 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'Amour / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADIt had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone."That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADFor one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADTo live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADA man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADA mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
18c. 1948 ADShe had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADTo exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
22c. 1948 ADMen strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADEnemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADWhat a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
