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All Quotes by author - Adam Hochschild

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. "

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