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Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace. (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
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. (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
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 similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives. (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy. (Adam Hochschild Quotes)
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece (Adam Hochschild Quotes)