Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Combat Copy Share Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Democracy Copy Share Image
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove… — Chris Hedges Authority Copy Share Image
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw… — Chris Hedges Democracy Copy Share Image
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges Capitalism Copy Share Image
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. — Chris Hedges Freedom Copy Share Image
“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.” — Chris Hedges Betrayal 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
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
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
“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
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
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
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those… — Chris Hedges 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
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 Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Access 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 Austerity 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 Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges 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
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness… — Chris Hedges Popular culture Copy Share Image
“Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.” — Chris Hedges Caricatures Copy Share Image
Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. — Chris Hedges Cruelty Copy Share Image
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges 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 Anti semitism Copy Share Image
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. — Chris Hedges Capitalism Copy Share Image
I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists. — Chris Hedges Fascists Copy Share Image
“To be a rebel is to reject what it means to succeed in a capitalist, consumer culture, especially the idea that we… — Chris Hedges Rebel Copy Share Image
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause. — Chris Hedges 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
“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.” — Chris Hedges Civil disobedience Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Authenticity Copy Share Image
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. — Chris Hedges Corporations 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
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 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 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
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