You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you...
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 d...
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.
Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror...
People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.
My future is one I must make myself.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Men 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.
There can be no living together without understanding, and understanding means compromise. Compromise is not a dirty word, it is the cornerstone of civilization, just as politics is the art of making...
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...
I 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.
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me...
You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
Violence 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.
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.