"The cable news channels have cleverly seized on……" — Chris Hedges
"The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity."
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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 Attack Quotes
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
— Jane Austen
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
— Antonio Banderas
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
— Jack Adams
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
— H. Rap Brown
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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