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The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges

When you're violent you undermine everything. — Chris Hedges

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

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

If we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death. — Chris Hedges

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42 — Chris Hedges

Useless DECEMBER 7, 2009 Liberals are a useless lot. — Chris Hedges

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. — Chris Hedges

The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold — Chris Hedges

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence. — Chris Hedges

The sweats teach you that you can't carry grudges, you can't carry hatred in your heart. It'll make you sick, so you have to learn to forgive, — Chris Hedges

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort. — Chris Hedges

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom. — Chris Hedges

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious. — Chris Hedges

Money has replaced the vote. — Chris Hedges

Jesus was a pacifist. — Chris Hedges

The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10 — Chris Hedges

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

The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world - an average of 89 per 100 people, — Chris Hedges

Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity — Chris Hedges

Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it, — Chris Hedges

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods. — Chris Hedges

Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed. — Chris Hedges

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich. — Chris Hedges

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor. — Chris Hedges

No real journalist makes $5 million a year ... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges

There is no reliable data on the number of military-style assault weapons in private hands, but the working estimate is about 1.5 million. — Chris Hedges

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible ... — Chris Hedges

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. — Chris Hedges

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. — Chris Hedges

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death. — Chris Hedges

Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists. — Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges

When human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied. — Chris Hedges

After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory. — Chris Hedges

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. — Chris Hedges

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges

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

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe. — Chris Hedges

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

War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. — Chris Hedges

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges

"But I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." - Chris Hedges — Susan Abulhawa

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. — Chris Hedges

Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges

The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion. — Chris Hedges

We make our heroes out of clay. — Chris Hedges

Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website. — Chris Hedges

I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists. — Chris Hedges

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges

It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors. — Chris Hedges