In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug. - Chris Hedges
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
- Chris Hedges
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and t… - Chris Hedges
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and t…
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity a… - Chris Hedges
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity a…
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. - Chris Hedges
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, k… - Chris Hedges
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, k…
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, how… - Chris Hedges
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, how…
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. - Chris Hedges
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take thi… - Chris Hedges
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take thi…
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear… - Chris Hedges
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear…
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