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Power Quotes by Chris Hedges
- We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not…
- No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
- There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
- We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The…
- 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 are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth…
- 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…
- Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure…
- I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is…
- To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is…
More Power Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo