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One Quotes by Chris Hedges
- It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of…
- In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on…
- The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal,…
- I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a…
- 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…
- This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
- The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
- One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible...
- 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…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle