Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is… — Chris Hedges Alive 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
There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action… — Chris Hedges Action 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
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
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
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Democrat Copy Share Image
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges Belittle 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 Forgotten Copy Share Image
“Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.” — Chris Hedges 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
“Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and… — Chris Hedges African american 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
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to… — Chris Hedges Agendas Copy Share Image
“The difficult task of learning how to make moral choices, how to accept personal responsibility, how to deal with the chaos of… — Chris Hedges Character Copy Share Image
“They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry… — Chris Hedges War Copy Share Image
The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind… — Chris Hedges Access Copy Share Image
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 Assault 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
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a… — Chris Hedges Argentina Copy Share Image
“Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009 Liberals are a useless lot.” — Chris Hedges Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. — Chris Hedges Addiction Copy Share Image
“Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline… — Chris Hedges 9-11 Copy Share Image
