"As long as we think abstractly, as long……" — Chris Hedges
"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 who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence."
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66 Quotes by Chris Hedges
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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and…
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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically…
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No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
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The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used.…
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that…
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a…
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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
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We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They…
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long…
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I…
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had…
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