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War Quotes by Chris Hedges
- War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
- In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
- The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
- The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part…
- 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…
- 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…
- The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
- 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 enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can…
- The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that…
- As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those…
- 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…
- 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…
- Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a…
- The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the…
- 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…
- The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care…
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- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
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