John Keegan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?”

“The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.”

“Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.”

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

“Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?”

“The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Some people are more terrorist than others.”