Adam Hochschild Quotes

United States, Writer
October 5, 1942

Adam Hochschild (; born October 5, 1942) 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), The Unquiet Ghost (1994), and, most recently Spain in Our Hearts.

Also known as Journalist, Historian, University Teacher

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

Adam Hochschild
- World
- War
- First
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Adam Hochschild
- Chance
- Note
- Seldom

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
- World
- History
- Tradition
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 the Western Hemisphere.

Adam Hochschild
- Country
- Why
- Better
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
- Men
- Today
- Doubt
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
- Think
- Human
- Profound
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
- World
- War
- Victory
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild
- Time
- Work
- Short

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

Adam Hochschild
- Society
- Peace
- Justice