Citas de Chris Hedges

• Tenemos que comprender, como hicieron Marx y Adam Smith, que las empresas no se preocupan por el bien común. Explotan, contaminan, empobrecen, reprimen, matan y mienten para ganar dinero. Echan a los pobres de sus casas, dejan morir a los no asegurados, libran guerras inútiles con fines de lucro, envenenan y contaminan el ecosistema, recortan drásticamente los programas de asistencia social, destruyen la educación pública, destrozan la economía mundial, saquean el Tesoro de Estados Unidos y aplastan todos los movimientos populares que buscan justicia para los trabajadores y trabajadoras. Adoran el dinero y el poder.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice

  Chris Hedges

  Mean, Two, Justice

  Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

  Chris Hedges

  Education, Mistake, Thinking

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• Es el culto al yo lo que está matando a Estados Unidos. Este culto contiene los rasgos clásicos de los psicópatas: encanto superficial, grandiosidad y prepotencia; necesidad de estimulación constante; inclinación por la mentira, el engaño y la manipulación; e incapacidad para el remordimiento o la culpa.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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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

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• A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Mean, Liberty

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Siempre hay gente dispuesta a cometer atrocidades humanas incalificables a cambio de un poco de poder y privilegios.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Atrocities, Littles

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.88, PublicAffairs

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• It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Self, Retreat

  "How to Think COMMENTS". www.truthdig.com. July 9, 2012.

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• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

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  Color, Years, Jail

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• Una democracia sobrevive cuando sus ciudadanos tienen acceso a fuentes de información fiables e imparciales, cuando pueden discernir las mentiras de la verdad. Si esto se elimina, la democracia muere. La fusión de noticias y entretenimiento, el auge de una clase de periodistas famosos en televisión que definen la información por su acceso a los famosos y poderosos, la retirada de muchos lectores a los guetos ideológicos de Internet y el despiadado afán de las empresas por destruir el negocio tradicional de las noticias nos están dejando sordos, mudos y ciegos.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

  Chris Hedges

  Inability, Faults, Pathology

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• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

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• La economía domina la política - y con esa dominación vienen diferentes formas de crueldad.

  Chris Hedges

  Different, Ruthlessness, Economics

  Chris Hedges (2010). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.146, Nation Books

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• Vivimos en mundos imaginarios, virtuales, creados por empresas que se benefician de nuestro engaño.

  Chris Hedges

  Deception, World, Corporations

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.52, Nation Books

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• The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Issues, President

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• Uno necesita soledad y tranquilidad para pensar. La cacofonía de la cultura moderna está diseñada para hacerlo imposible.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Solitude, Needs

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• Hemos sido muy eficazmente pacificados por la ideología perniciosa de una sociedad de consumo que se centra en el culto al yo - un hedonismo y narcisismo sin diluir. Eso se ha convertido en una forma muy eficaz de desviar nuestra atención mientras el país se reconfigura en una especie de neofeudalismo, con una élite oligárquica rapaz y un gobierno anémico que ya no es capaz de interceder en nombre de los ciudadanos, sino que sirve cobardemente a los intereses de la propia oligarquía.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Self, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Party, Two

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• The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

  Chris Hedges

  Careers, Mind, Purpose

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.107, Nation Books

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• I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

  Chris Hedges

  Fighting, Winning, Fascists

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• La prensa, o al menos la mayor parte de ella, ha perdido la pasión, la indignación y el sentido de la misión que antaño impulsaban a los periodistas a desafiar a la autoridad y decir la verdad.

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  Passion, Media Control, Telling The Truth

  Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books

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• We 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

  Struggle, Dark, Winning

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

  Chris Hedges

  Past, Years, Humans

  Chris Hedges (2007). “What Every Person Should Know About War”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards liberals, who speak in a very hypocritical language about caring for their interests and yet support institutions that carry out an assault against working men and women.

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  Caring, Men, Thinking

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Giving Up, Want, Corporations

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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