I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. John Keegan More Quotes by John Keegan More Quotes From John Keegan 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 pieces speech energy We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports? John Keegan government sea school Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did. John Keegan teach should years 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 battle strong dark We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them. John Keegan baby children thinking Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. John Keegan exercise men people Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear. John Keegan stress fighting successful Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. John Keegan virtue military should 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 trying book thinking I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. John Keegan extinction nukes situation It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. John Keegan regret mean people We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes. John Keegan changes major may
