John Keegan People Quotations

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.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

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

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

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 it says a lot about the people in the city of Peoria and their commitment to making this a great community well into the future,

I think the people saw the difference between someone who said he would do things, compared to someone who comes in with new ideas.

My biggest asset is that I have the ability to listen, and give people the respect they're entitled to.

We are going to talk to franchisers, the types of businesses that are attractive to shoppers, the kinds of stores that make people get out of their cars and browse,

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

Some people are more terrorist than others