Adam Hochschild Quotes
- No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
- Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as…
- Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
- I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.
- The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
- Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
- No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
- I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic…
- As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a…
- For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the…