black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Adam Hochschild

Related Topics

Century Fight First Many Out Really Remade Shaped Twenty War Way World Worse

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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

Few Hungary Last Lecturing Museum Often Thing War Year
And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Deal Different Great Learned People Strength Weakness Weapon
Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Act Ally Opening Power Second Sympathetic Wanted War World
I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Appear Certainty Differences Moment Onwell Political Thinking Want
Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

History Leopold Congo Second Silence Story War World
Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Athol Fugard Country Countryman Ditto Great People Playwright War
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

Close Country Day Determination Fierce Modern Slave Two Year
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Blame Children Declining Fera Identifiable Job Real Risk Target Tempting Wages Worse
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Ability Count Country Example Injustice Late Paper Wonderful
To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Account Bring Globe Human Network Searing Servitude Span Today Trafficking Vivid Wide
Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Ago Long Mother Perfected Subtler Talk Talking Version Welfare
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

Country Extraordinary Favourite Fiction Football Sport Texan War Writer
No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Absolute Appetite Better Between Country Link Madness Politics Spectacle Sport Summed War
In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Country Force Freedom Life Pay Political Something Stand
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

Country Great Hear Non Political Really Revolution Totally
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Airplane Attack Battle Civil Country Language Many Military Second War Way World

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes