"They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't……" — Chris Hedges

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of… - Chris Hedges

"They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor."

— Chris Hedges

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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.
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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More Academia Quotes

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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business… — Hillary Clinton
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like… — Sean Young
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida.… — Werner Herzog
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. — Robert Reich
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men,… — Catharine MacKinnon
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the… — Marvin Olasky
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range… — Jacque Fresco
I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. — Mira Sorvino
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have… — Christian Wiman
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved… — Will Self

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