Quotes by Chris Hedges

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 this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

Ghetto

Lying

Powerful

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

Liberty

Lying

Mean

Again, although I’m not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, “We’re called to do the good.” And then we have to let it go. It’s not our job to know where the good goes.

Fighting

Jobs

Religious

And let’s not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure. I live near Philly, I live in Princeton. The school system is shattered with closings and layoffs. Libraries are being shuttered. Head Start is being cut back. Unemployment benefits are not being extended. You know, we’ve reached a point of both physical and emotional exhaustion.

Cutting

Emotional

School

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

Becoming

Important

Vegetarian

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

Different

Economics

Ruthlessness

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

Age

Atrocities

Historical

I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn’t about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn’t going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to “take out all the negativity,” which, of course, I wasn’t going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.

Believe

Book

Lying

I don’t fight fascists because I’ll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

Fascists

Fighting

Winning

I don’t know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

Blame

Economic

Praise

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Addiction

Age

America

Art

Atheist

Atrocities

Becoming

Believe

Blame

Book

Branches

Careers

Children

Christian

Class

Color

Corporations

Country

Creating

Credit

Crush

Cutting

Daddy

Dark

Deception

Different

Doe

Doubt

Drug

Economic

Economics

Ecosystems

Education

Emotional

Empowering

Enemy

Eugenics

Fascists

Fighting

Flags

Ghetto

Giving

Giving Up

Grief

Hands

Historical

Home

Honor

Important

Intellectual

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Quotes by Chris Hedges

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

Again, although I’m not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, “We’re called to do the good.” And then we have to let it go. It’s not our job to know where the good goes.

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

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

I don’t fight fascists because I’ll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

I don’t know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

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