War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.” — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges 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
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — 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
“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
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
