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From Quotes by Chris Hedges
- War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its…
- The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or…
- The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear…
- Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by…
- There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee…
- It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no…
- The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will…
- It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what…
- We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
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