The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys… — Chris Hedges Health Copy Share Image
Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards… — Chris Hedges Assault Copy Share Image
“The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we… — Chris Hedges Frederick douglas Copy Share Image
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Antiwar Copy Share Image
“Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and… — Chris Hedges Corporations Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges 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
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and… — Chris Hedges 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
“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
“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
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey… — Chris Hedges 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 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 Copy Share Image
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope… — Chris Hedges Hope Copy Share Image
I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“We do have a grand strategy,” says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader’s 2004 presidential campaign. “Nonviolent movements shift power… — Chris Hedges Civil servants Copy Share Image
“Što se više udaljavamo i raskidamo veze sa svijetom pismenosti, svijetom napisane riječi, svijetom složenosti i nijanse, svijetom ideja i pojmova i… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Hope does not mean that our protests will suddenly awaken the dead consciences, the atrophied souls, of the plutocrats running Halliburton, Goldman… — Chris Hedges Corporate greed 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
“The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is no acting because… — Chris Hedges 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Pozitivistička psihologija, poput celebrity kulture, nezadrživ nagon da se kupuje i privlačnosti masovne zabave kao sredstva odvraćanja pozornosti, pothranjuje se osjećajem nesretnosti… — Chris Hedges 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
“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
“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 media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges 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 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 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