Raymond Gram Swing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

  • Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

  • Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

  • If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

  • Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

  • What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

  • In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

  • I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

  • If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

  • My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

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