I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise… — Chris Hedges Blame Copy Share Image
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us… — Chris Hedges Language Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Bias Copy Share Image
It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks… — Chris Hedges Direct Copy Share Image
Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are… — Chris Hedges Fighting 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
What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back… — Chris Hedges Arrested 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
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
“All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political… — Chris Hedges Believe in yourself Copy Share Image
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of… — Chris Hedges Censorship Copy Share Image
“But this new class seeks to reduce the American working class to the levels of this global serfdom. After all, anything that… — Chris Hedges American freedom 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
“Pozitivistička psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlačnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvraćanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjećajem nesretnosti… — Chris Hedges Toga Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Apathy Copy Share Image
“Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money… — Chris Hedges Capitalists 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 Inevitable 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
I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically… — Chris Hedges Collapse Copy Share Image
“A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to… — Chris Hedges Character Copy Share Image
“The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an absurdity that found fertile ground… — Chris Hedges Democrats 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 Politics Copy Share Image
The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with… — Chris Hedges Doe 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
We've become the most eavesdropped, monitored, spied on, photographed population in human history, dwarfing anything that was done by the Stasi state… — Chris Hedges Done Copy Share Image
The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of… — Chris Hedges Atheist 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 Attraction Copy Share Image
There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If… — Chris Hedges Expenses 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
“The danger is not Islam or Christianity or any other religion. It is the human heart—the capacity we all have for evil.… — Chris Hedges Christianity Copy Share Image
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of… — Chris Hedges Eyes Reality 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… — Chris Hedges Algeria 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
“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into… — Chris Hedges Marine corps Copy Share Image
“A group trying to curtail the civil rights of gays and lesbians portrays itself, in this rhetorical twist, as victims of an… — Chris Hedges Christianity Copy Share Image
“Blind adherence to an absolute leader, especially one who permits violence, hands followers a license to unleash hidden, prohibited lusts and passions… — Chris Hedges Followers Copy Share Image
“Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to… — Chris Hedges Happiness 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
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
“on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, “Rio de… — Chris Hedges Programming Copy Share Image
