Colm Brogan

Colm Brogan (20 October 1902 – 28 January 1977) was a Scottish journalist and writer.

Quotes

• We have followed the bright rainbow of humanistic promise, too zealously and too long. It still hangs in the sky, but its colours have faded; and the floods are still rising about us.
  • Who Are 'The People'?: Some Thoughts on Our Present Malcontents (London: Hollis & Carter, Ltd., 1943), ch. 14

• There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail.
  • Attributed in J. M. and M. J. Cohen (eds.) The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1971), p. 30

See also

• Denis William Brogan

External links

• Iain Finlayson, The Scots (London: Constable, 1987), pp. 29–30, 154–5, 157–8, 164–5, 204–5; ——— (New York: Atheneum, 1987); ——— (Oxford UP, 1988)
• David Ross (ed.) Scottish Quotations (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd., 2000), pp. 90, 189