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 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

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

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

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

- 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…

- Chris Hedges

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

- 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…

- Chris Hedges