Culture Quotes by Chris Hedges

8 Culture quotes by Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges’s take on culture is expressed in eight short quotes. Their investigative edge offers a concise, critical glimpse into his analysis of society.

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The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other…

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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…

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The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the…

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“A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to…

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One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...

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As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those…

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“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused.…

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I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for…

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“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10”

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“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de…

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“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The…

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Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis

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“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not…

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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against…

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Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities…

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I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a…

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A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this…

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It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm,…

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“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…

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No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

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“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that…

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Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war.

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The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe…

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