Chris Hedges Quotes

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ev...

The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility. There are times when we m...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and pen...

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ...

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosi...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human li...

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t...

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which enc...

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the tr...

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rathe...

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human s...

The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

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

The cult of self dominates our cultural landscape. This cult has within it the classic traits of psy...

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is ...

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function...

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.

The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populis...

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

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible o...

Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ ...

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik

What is at work in this report is the reduction of language to code. Cliches, coined by the state, b...

Jesus was a pacifist.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in th...

Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the r...

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

Money has replaced the vote.

The Democrats, fearful of his grassroots campaign, blamed him for the election of George W. Bush, an...

The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...