Evil people Quote by Adam Hochschild

“Churchill was a big fat cannibal, Leopold was an ugly deadly virus, Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Dr. Sheppard has not only stood before kings, but he has also stood against them. In pursuit of his mission of serving his race…

— Adam Hochschild

“Albert liked to play the stoic, and he embraced the opportunity to do over the negotiations about the marriage. He insisted that Uncle Leopold…

— Kate Williams

“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

“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.”

— Brent Weeks

“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this…

— Barry Unsworth

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument which states…

— Albert Memmi

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

— Erik Larson

“Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hears? On…

— T.H. White

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard