John Keegan Quotes - Page 2

• Some people are more terrorist than others

  John Keegan

  People, Terrorist

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• Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.

  John Keegan

  Strong, Dark, Battle

  John Keegan (1983). “The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme”, p.59, Penguin

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• I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

  John Keegan

  Nukes, Extinction, Situation

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• Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

  John Keegan

  Years, Should, Teach

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• I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

  John Keegan

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

  John Keegan

  Military, Virtue, Should

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• Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

  John Keegan

  Energy, Pieces, Speech

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