I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.
Chris HedgesOne needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.
Chris HedgesThe inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
Chris HedgesWe are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible.
Chris Hedges