“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more… — 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
