“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“A democratic state begins from the assumption that most of those who gravitate toward power are mediocre and probably immoral. It assumes… — 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
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of… — 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 sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The fact that alienated people can be counted on to vent their spleen in ineffectual directions—by fighting among themselves—relieves the government 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
