Raymond Gram Swing quotes

Raymond Gram Swing quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.”
-- Raymond Gram Swing

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“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.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“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.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Emperor Ming". "Flash Gordon", 1980.
“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.”

Source : "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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