And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDYou can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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.
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