Business Quote by Adam Hochschild

“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries…

— Anonymous

“Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.”

— Teju Cole

“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.”

— Adam Hochschild

“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers,…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was,…

— Anonymous

“The African villager with a solar powered smartphone has more access to more information than Louis XIV in the halls of Versailles.”

— Walter Russell Mead

“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers…

— Tim Butcher

“At the top of the Queen’s Staircase at the Tuileries, there is a series of communicating chambers, crowded every day with clerks, secretaries, messengers,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.”

— J.M. Coetzee

We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold’s regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The”

— Adam Hochschild