"A society without the means to detect lies……" — Chris Hedges

"A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom."

66 Quotes by Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and…
In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically…
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used.…
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that…
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a…
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
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…

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It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. — Frank A. Clark
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I never worry that all hell will break loose. My concern is that only part of hell will break loose… — George Carlin
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker… — John Stuart Mill
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by… — David Hume
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that… — Martin Luther
It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible… — Gary Zukav
As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is… — Charles Spurgeon

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"A society without the means to detect lies……" — Chris Hedges

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