176 Quotes by Chris Hedges

As long as personal, violent catharsis masquerades as acts of resistance, the corporate state is secure. Indeed, the corporate state welcomes this violence because violence is a language it can speak with a proficiency and ruthlessness that none of these groups can match.

Those of us who are condemned as radicals, idealists, and dreamers call for basic reforms that, if enacted, would make peaceful reform possible. But corporate capitalists, now unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they are igniting.

Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.

Prisons are prototypes for the future, an example of the disempowerment and exploitation corporations seek to inflict on all workers.

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.