"I have seen children shot in El Salvador,……" — Chris Hedges
"I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport."
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66 Quotes by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges has 66 quotes on this site.
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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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More Algeria Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest…
— Omar Bongo
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The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge,…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria;…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Algeria is not breaking up.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and…
— Chuck Hagel
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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the…
— Jacques Derrida
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