Chris Hedges Quotes (7 Quotes)

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I'm trying to give them a focus ... that you have to do it for yourself, but you also have to do well for each other, ... We need to represent the school and the community.

During the construction, parking can literally be hell, but the construction is needed and once it is done, it should be better.

I remember this kid said, 'I can't believe we did all this work to come in second,' ... I wanted to kill him because we learned so much along the way.

life of solitude, guilt, anger and remorse.