And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
More 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
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD -
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
ADAM HOCHSCHILD