Chris Hedges Quotes

Biden is worse than Trump. Trump inherited the system; Biden was its architect.

Julian Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.

As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.

Imperial powers do not forgive those who expose their weaknesses or make public the sordid and immoral inner workings of empire. Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage, the exploitation of cheap labor, indiscriminate violence and state terror.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

The inevitable demise of the U.S. on the world stage is cheered by the majority of the planet. The tragedy is that, as it goes down, it is determined to take so many others down with it.

There can be accidental moments when people on the left make money…The danger of accumulating wealth is the danger of corruption. You begin to associate with that class of the economic elite, you begin to like it, and you begin to hedge.

At no time, including the Cuban missile crisis, have we stood closer to the precipice of nuclear war.

Rebellion is not going to go away…What has been unleashed, I think, can’t be stopped…The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive…We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

They push you to the margins and then, they demonize those spaces on the margins. This has long been the habit of the dominant ruling elites.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.