Death Quote by Chris Hedges Download Open image “War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.” — Chris Hedges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death Flag waving Flags Killing Patriotism War
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not waving a flag around. Patriotism is not telling our neighbors that we are better than them. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
“Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“These days you don't need a country to have a flag, you don't need to win an election to become president, and you don't… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan radical who launched his country’s wars of liberation from Spain, went to the United States to meet with revolutionaries such as Thomas Paine, and he participated in the French Revolution. Paine fomented revolt… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The reality of their world is whatever the latest cable news show, political leader, advertiser, or loan officer says is reality. The illiterate, the semiliterate, and those who live as though they are illiterate are effectively cut… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — 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 is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes. Hope never… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
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 phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the paper on which he'd been writing. They went to the quill that he seemed surprised to see in his hand. When he turned to look at her again, fresh tears spilled from Michel de Nostredame's eyes.… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
