We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in… — Chris Hedges Civil liberties Copy Share Image
“Hope does not mean that our protests will suddenly awaken the dead consciences, the atrophied souls, of the plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman… — Chris Hedges Corporate greed 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 Politics Copy Share Image
War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. — Chris Hedges Death Copy Share Image
“God is inscrutable, mysterious and unknowable. We do not understand what life is about, what it means, why we are here and… — Chris Hedges Faith 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 Magical thinking Copy Share Image
“Five months after Zoran's disappearance, his wife gave birth to a girl. The mother was unable to nurse the child. The city… — Chris Hedges Marriage Copy Share Image
“Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.” — Chris Hedges Islam Copy Share Image
The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through… — Chris Hedges Accepting Copy Share Image
“Pozitivistička psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlačnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvraćanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjećajem nesretnosti… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they're both right. First you get the new… — Chris Hedges Consumers 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 Learn to forgive Copy Share Image
“Writing of Ohio megachurch pastor Rod Parsley and his close associate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, he says, “[T]he heart of the… — Chris Hedges Christian religion Copy Share Image
“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness.… — Chris Hedges Celebrity Copy Share Image
“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not.… — Chris Hedges Corporate culture Copy Share Image
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other… — Chris Hedges Betrayal Copy Share Image
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.… — Chris Hedges Ability Copy Share Image
“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty,… — Chris Hedges Economics 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
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges Atrocities Copy Share Image
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause… — Chris Hedges America 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 Labor movement Copy Share Image
When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society… — Chris Hedges Care Copy Share Image
