The World As It Is Quotes

“Patriotic duty and the disease of nationalism lure us to deny our common humanity”
― Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

“Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction.”
― Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

“Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it,”
― Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

“the past controls the present, who controls the present controls the future, as George Orwell said.”
― Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

“Acts of rebellion which promote moral and political change must be nonviolent. And one of the most potent nonviolent alternatives in the country, which defies the corporate state and calls for an end to imperial wars, is the secessionist movement bubbling up in some two dozen states including Vermont, Texas, Alaska and Hawaii.”
― Chris Hedges, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress