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John Keegan Quotes
John Keegan
English
Historian
Born:
May 15
,
1934
Died:
Aug 2
,
2012
Great
Men
People
Think
World
You
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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
John Keegan
Veterans Day
Loyalty
Courage
Duty
Others
Soldiers
Compromise
Unrelenting
Absolute
Until
Devotion
Go
Been
Task
Committed
Done
Standards
Letting
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
John Keegan
You
People
World
Wicked
Except
Force
Deal
Certain
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
John Keegan
Time
Will
Made
Men
Mask
Leader
Mark
Must
Followers
Only
Through
He
Make
Him
Himself
His
Want
Form
Place
Warfare
Show
Need
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
John Keegan
You
People
Well
Trying
Whole
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
John Keegan
Somewhere
Glorious
Think
Other
Valley
Altogether
Mountain
Than
Crashing
Shot
Less
Skyscraper
Some people are more terrorist than others.
John Keegan
People
Some People
Others
Some
More
Terrorist
Than
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
Education
You
People
Regret
World
Other
Way
Writer
Never
Had
Look
Said
Were
Been
Childhood
Upset
Commonly
Really
Means
Help
Ill
Inclined
Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.
John Keegan
Nobody
Years
Did
Anywhere
Should
Teach
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
John Keegan
You
Quality
Will
Trouble
Politician
Politicians
Diplomat
Diplomats
Compromise
Uncompromising
He
Most
Terrible
Get
Necessary
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
John Keegan
Military
Virtues
Admire
Pacifist
Should
Even
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
John Keegan
World
Black
Become
Think
Extremely
Tribes
Maelstrom
About
Outside
Outside World
Feel
Terrifying
Without
Africa
Anything
Warring
Need
Needing
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