“on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, “Rio de… — Chris Hedges Programming Copy Share Image
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the… — Chris Hedges Anonymity Copy Share Image
Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It… — Chris Hedges Assault Copy Share Image
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to… — Chris Hedges Happiness Copy Share Image
The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind… — Chris Hedges Access Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges America Copy Share Image
“Reigns of terror are thus the bastard child of the Enlightenment. Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and… — Chris Hedges Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation… — 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 Addiction Copy Share Image
“In all of these countries, a significant portion of the population had abandoned their faith in the ideological constructs of power, just… — Chris Hedges Better future Copy Share Image
“If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New York Times… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture and our ecosystem, powerless and weak.… — Chris Hedges Revolution Copy Share Image
“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness.… — Chris Hedges Celebrity Copy Share Image
“When everybody was, you know, pushing for multiculturalism in lead institutions, it really meant filtering a few people of color or women… — Chris Hedges Economic justice Copy Share Image
“Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions… — Chris Hedges Followers Copy Share Image
“A group trying to curtail the civil rights of gays and lesbians portrays itself, in this rhetorical twist, as victims of an… — Chris Hedges Christianity Copy Share Image
“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we… — Chris Hedges Frederick douglas 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 Antiwar Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Assault Copy Share Image
“Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Color Copy Share Image
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Democrat Copy Share Image
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other… — Chris Hedges Betrayal Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Absurd Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Absurd Copy Share Image
“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want… — Chris Hedges Political Copy Share Image
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is… — Chris Hedges Alive Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys… — Chris Hedges Health 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 Divisiveness Copy Share Image
I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically… — Chris Hedges Collapse Copy Share Image
What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and… — Chris Hedges African american Copy Share Image
“This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who… — 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
