"Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts……" — Chris Hedges

"Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause."

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66 Quotes by Chris Hedges

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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…
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity…

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