Quotes by Adam Hochschild

About Adam Hochschild:

Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, and lecturer. His best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost (1998), To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 (2011), Bury the Chains (2005), The Mirror at Midnight (1990), and The Unquiet Ghost (1994).
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That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..

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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Adam Hochschild

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

Adam Hochschild

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 those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a simil...

Adam Hochschild

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 fervour.

Adam Hochschild

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 heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in th...

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Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, o...

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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 remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

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Author Bio

  • NameAdam Hochschild
  • DescriptionAmerican author, journalist, and lecturer
  • Born1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Historian