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> [The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/the-first-world-war-in-so-many-ways-shaped-the-20th-century-and/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

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## More by Adam Hochschild

> [“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/no-one-can-know-of-course-accurate-population-figures-from-an-era/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/those-who-made-the-greatest-fortunes-from-the-scramble-for-africa/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/the-lust-for-slave-profits-engulfed-even-some-of-the-priests-who/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/all-of-us-living-in-today-s-world-are-facing-an-enormous-crisis/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/nelson-w-aldrich-of-rhode-island-aldrich-a-multimillionaire-a-card/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/the-very-people-who-are-most-ardent-against-entangling-alliances/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/as-the-first-world-war-made-painfully-clear-when-politicians-and/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [ “When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, \[German Chancellor\] Bismarck said to an aide,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/when-leopold-wrote-that-the-precise-frontiers-of-the-new-state-or/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/compared-with-how-we-ve-ducked-it-in-the-united-states-canada-should/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/there-was-nothing-inherently-wrong-with-colonialism-he-felt-if-its/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/the-others-had-been-driven-into-the-desert-to-die-of-thirst-the/)

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> [“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/we-run-the-risk-of-someday-seeing-our-native-population-collapse-and/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [“Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics—in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/those-who-are-conquered-wrote-the-philosopher-ibn-khaldun-in-the/)

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> [“each of the two great archrivals, Booker T. Washington and WE.B. Du Bois, invited”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/each-of-the-two-great-archrivals-booker-t-washington-and-we-b-du-bois/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

> [Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-hochschild/work-is-hard-distractions-are-plentiful-and-time-is-short/)

[Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-hochschild/)

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