Chris Hedges

“Revolutions come in waves. The birth of a new society is never a single, sweeping event.”

“Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.”

“The most essential skill in political theater and a consumer culture is artifice.”

“We have been silent witnesses to the slow-motion march toward corporate totalitarianism.”

“The ecstasy of destruction is one of the most potent lures to war.”

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”

“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”

“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk.”

“The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.”

“When you remove the capacity for empathy, you have the capacity for evil.”

“Fascism, wherever it exists, is a form of cultural sickness.”

“Rebellion, in the face of a nihilistic and soulless status quo, is an act of hope.”

“The permanent war state is the logical consequence of a society that has been stripped of its capacity for self-criticism.”

“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.”

“A society that can no longer tell the difference between illusion and reality is a society that is about to die.”

“The powerful demand that we be grateful for the crumbs that fall from their table.”

“The press, once a bastion of inquiry, has become a ministry of propaganda.”

“The problem is not that we have failed to find the right leaders; the problem is that we have become a nation of followers.”