Adam Hochschild

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

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.

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.

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