There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
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 Blind Copy Share Image
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the… — Chris Hedges Anonymity Copy Share Image
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those… — Chris Hedges Better life 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
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power,… — Chris Hedges Ability Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Charm Copy Share Image
The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate… — Chris Hedges Candidates 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
“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 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
“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
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like… — Chris Hedges Achieve Copy Share Image
“The wild pursuit of status and wealth has destroyed our souls and our economy. Families live in sprawling mansions financed with mortgages… — Chris Hedges Credit card 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
“They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry… — Chris Hedges Emotion Copy Share Image
“You know, I come out of the church. I not only grew up in the church but graduated from seminary, and I… — Chris Hedges Religious Copy Share Image
“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 Corporatism Copy Share Image
“For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him… — Chris Hedges Character Copy Share Image
“I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or… — Chris Hedges Faith Copy Share Image
“Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. Their… — Chris Hedges Lost loved ones Copy Share Image
“If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New York Times… — Chris Hedges Better now Copy Share Image
“We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture and our ecosystem, powerless and weak.… — Chris Hedges Revolution Copy Share Image
“When everybody was, you know, pushing for multiculturalism in lead institutions, it really meant filtering a few people of color or women… — Chris Hedges Economic justice 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
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and… — Chris Hedges Credit card Copy Share Image
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of… — Chris Hedges Accepting Copy Share Image
“Reigns of terror are thus the bastard child of the Enlightenment. Terror in the name of utopian ideals would rise again and… — Chris Hedges Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation… — Chris Hedges Around the corner Copy Share Image
“In all of these countries, a significant portion of the population had abandoned their faith in the ideological constructs of power, just… — Chris Hedges Better future Copy Share Image
I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for… — Chris Hedges Addiction Copy Share Image
“The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is no acting because… — Chris Hedges Chris Copy Share Image
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with… — Chris Hedges Absolutes Copy Share Image
“Revolutions can even be faux revolutions when, through the careful manipulation of counterrevolutionary forces, they demand not reform but the restoration of… — Chris Hedges Israel Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to… — Chris Hedges Graduation Copy Share Image
“The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of… — Chris Hedges Curse Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Bills Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Age Copy Share Image
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to… — Chris Hedges Assets 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
![“Writing of Ohio megachurch pastor Rod Parsley and his close associate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, he says, “[T]he heart of the Christian religion, all that is good and compassionate within it, has been tossed aside, ruthlessly gouged out and thrown into a heap with all the other…” quote by Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9f/chris-hedges-2131_christian-religion_writing-of-ohio-megachurch-pastor-rod-pa_1112629.jpg)
