Patriotism Quotes by Chris Hedges

8 Patriotism quotes by Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges’s eight brief statements provide a critical, journalistic lens on patriotism, urging readers to confront its complexities.

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“Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity”

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Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those…

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We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the…

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War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

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“After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.”

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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will…

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“In all of these countries, a significant portion of the population had abandoned their faith in the ideological constructs of power, just…

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“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of…

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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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