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
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
“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
“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused.… — Chris Hedges Assets 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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
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
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the… — Chris Hedges Armenians 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 Force Copy Share Image
“Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling… — Chris Hedges Men and women Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Commandments Copy Share Image
“As porn has gone mainstream, ushered two decades ago into middle-class living rooms and dens with VCRs and now available on the… — Chris Hedges Gun control Copy Share Image
“But it would be a mistake to assume that the liberal class was simply seduced by the Utopian promises of globalism. It… — Chris Hedges Failure 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
![“Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling earth to which we cling. This is especially true of men [and women] in war. The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm, and when we leave he gives us a generous…” quote by Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e3/chris-hedges-2131_men-and-women_few-of-us-can-hold-on-to-our-real-selves_2985369.jpg)
