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
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
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
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges Mankind Copy Share Image
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. — Chris Hedges Failure Copy Share Image
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. — Chris Hedges Corporations 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
“The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated… — Chris Hedges Arts Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Adam 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
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
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Brands Copy Share Image
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. — Chris Hedges Causes 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 Prime minister 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
“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
“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
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
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Color Copy Share Image
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach… — Chris Hedges Lives of others 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
And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure.… — Chris Hedges Cutting 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
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
