Quote by Adam Hochschild Download Open image ““Forgetting one’s participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In”” — Adam Hochschild ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“murder is not only when you took knife or gun and killed someone.Sometime you kill someone by your Act and deeds That's is also… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts?" "It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out the man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.” — Omar EL KADMIRI Copy Share Image
“The moment you killed something – a living creature or a false hope – was the moment you came of age. Loss of innocence… — Jennifer Miller Copy Share Image
“but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“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… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“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… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image