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 Category:1902 births Category:1977 deaths Category:Journalists from Scotland Category:University of Glasgow alumni Category:People from Glasgow