Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes… — Chris Hedges Age Copy Share Image
“But it would be a mistake to assume that the liberal class was simply seduced by the Utopian promises of globalism. It… — Chris Hedges Failure Copy Share Image
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to… — Chris Hedges Agendas Copy Share Image
“As porn has gone mainstream, ushered two decades ago into middle-class living rooms and dens with VCRs and now available on the… — Chris Hedges Gun control Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Commandments 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
“Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling… — Chris Hedges Men and women Copy Share Image
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the… — Chris Hedges Armenians Copy Share Image
“For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him… — Chris Hedges Character Copy Share Image
“Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their… — Chris Hedges Lost loved ones Copy Share Image
“I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or… — Chris Hedges Faith 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 Labor movement Copy Share Image
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The wild pursuit of status and wealth has destroyed our souls and our economy. Families live in sprawling mansions financed with mortgages… — 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 Emotion 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
“Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money… — Chris Hedges Capitalists Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Apathy 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 Argentina Copy Share Image
“Writing of Ohio megachurch pastor Rod Parsley and his close associate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, he says, “[T]he heart of the… — Chris Hedges Christian religion Copy Share Image
“Five months after Zoran's disappearance, his wife gave birth to a girl. The mother was unable to nurse the child. The city… — Chris Hedges Marriage Copy Share Image
“Pozitivistička psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlačnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvraćanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjećajem nesretnosti… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image