Chris Hedges Military Quotes

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• 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 means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Fear, Giving Up

  Chris Hedges (2011). “Death of the Liberal Class”, p.21, Nation Books

• War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

  Chris Hedges

  Sports, Military, War

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

• There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Military, California

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.5, PublicAffairs

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