The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us… — Chris Hedges Language Copy Share Image
It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of… — Chris Hedges Corporate Copy Share Image
I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Bias Copy Share Image
Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action… — Chris Hedges Action Copy Share Image
It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these… — Chris Hedges Ideology Copy Share Image
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography,… — Chris Hedges Corporatism 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 Corporations Copy Share Image
“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness… — Chris Hedges Popular culture 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
“A democratic state begins from the assumption that most of those who gravitate toward power are mediocre and probably immoral. It assumes… — Chris Hedges Bad government Copy Share Image
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.… — Chris Hedges Ability Copy Share Image
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the… — Chris Hedges Extinction Copy Share Image
“Christian activists in Massachusetts are frequent guests at Christian conferences, where they speak of their persecution by “homosexual radicals.” This cultivated sense… — Chris Hedges Christian Copy Share Image
“The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated… — Chris Hedges Arts 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 Battle Copy Share Image
“How much of a conscious goal do you think that is at the upper levels of organizing with, say, somebody like Rod… — Chris Hedges Goals Copy Share Image
“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not.… — Chris Hedges Corporate culture Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Access Copy Share Image
The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in… — Chris Hedges Austerity 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 Lives of others Copy Share Image
And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure.… — 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 Battle Copy Share Image
If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new… — Chris Hedges Consumers Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another.… — Chris Hedges French revolution Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society… — Chris Hedges Care 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 Censorship Copy Share Image
“But this new class seeks to reduce the American working class to the levels of this global serfdom. After all, anything that… — Chris Hedges American freedom Copy Share Image
“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate… — Chris Hedges Climate Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — 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 Annihilation Copy Share Image
“Blanqui is an important, if neglected, nineteenth-century theorist, for unlike nearly all of his contemporaries, he dismissed the naive belief, central to… — Chris Hedges Faith Copy Share Image
