The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with… — Chris Hedges 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 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
“Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline… — Chris Hedges 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
“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
There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If… — Chris Hedges 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 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 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 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 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of… — Chris Hedges Corporate Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Abstract 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the… — Chris Hedges Extinction Copy Share Image
“Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these… — Chris Hedges Ideology 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
What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back… — Chris Hedges 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 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
“This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other… — Chris Hedges Betrayal Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Democrat Copy Share Image
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert… — Chris Hedges Absurd Copy Share Image
“People don’t want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don’t want… — Chris Hedges Political Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Absurd Copy Share Image
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is… — Chris Hedges Alive Copy Share Image
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at… — Chris Hedges Divisiveness Copy Share Image
