Chris Hedges

Jesus was a pacifist.

— Chris Hedges

“We make our heroes out of clay.”

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

— Chris Hedges

“When you’re violent you undermine everything.”

— Chris Hedges

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

— Chris Hedges

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

— Chris Hedges

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

— Chris Hedges

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

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

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

— Chris Hedges

“The sweats teach you that you can’t carry grudges, you can’t carry hatred in your heart. It’ll make you sick, so you…

— Chris Hedges

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw…

— Chris Hedges

Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It…

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the…

— Chris Hedges

It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better…

— Chris Hedges

“on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, “Rio de…

— Chris Hedges

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to…

— Chris Hedges

“You know, I come out of the church. I not only grew up in the church but graduated from seminary, and I…

— Chris Hedges

The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate…

— Chris Hedges

“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness…

— Chris Hedges

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,…

— Chris Hedges

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a…

— Chris Hedges

“Sadism dominates the culture. It runs like an electric current through reality television and trash-talk programs, is at the core of pornography,…

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach…

— Chris Hedges

And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure.…

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

— Chris Hedges

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

— Chris Hedges

“We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.”

— Chris Hedges

“the sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold”

— Chris Hedges

“Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009     Liberals are a useless lot.”

— Chris Hedges

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

— Chris Hedges