War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.” — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Copy Share
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
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