“To be a rebel is to reject what it means to succeed in a capitalist, consumer culture, especially the idea that we… — Chris Hedges Rebel Copy Share Image
I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists. — Chris Hedges Fascists Copy Share Image
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. — Chris Hedges Capitalism Copy Share Image
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges Becoming Copy Share Image
“Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.” — Chris Hedges Caricatures Copy Share Image
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. — Chris Hedges Cruelty Copy Share Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Democracy Copy Share Image
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges Faults 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 Political Copy Share Image
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Color Copy Share Image
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be… — Chris Hedges Activity Copy Share Image
“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we… — Chris Hedges Frederick douglas 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 Antiwar Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Assault Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges Able Copy Share Image
“Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
“Blanqui is an important, if neglected, nineteenth-century theorist, for unlike nearly all of his contemporaries, he dismissed the naive belief, central to… — Chris Hedges Faith 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… — Chris Hedges Age Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Annihilation Copy Share Image
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges Behinds Copy Share Image
We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate… — Chris Hedges Climate Copy Share Image
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will… — Chris Hedges Battle Copy Share Image
If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is… — Chris Hedges All kinds 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.… — Chris Hedges French revolution Copy Share Image
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Combat Copy Share Image
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges Capitalism Copy Share Image
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw… — Chris Hedges Democracy Copy Share Image
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove… — Chris Hedges Authority Copy Share Image
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those… — Chris Hedges Celebrate Copy Share Image
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges Abuse Copy Share Image
“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 Grudges Copy Share Image
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. — Chris Hedges Different Copy Share Image
“After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.” — Chris Hedges Patriotism 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 Anti war 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 Has beens Copy Share Image
One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible... — Chris Hedges Cacophony 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 Ideology 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… — Chris Hedges Extinction 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 Abstract 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 Corporate Copy Share Image
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