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 HOCHSCHILDThe 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.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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