Chris Hedges Quotes
An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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I was a publicist for other people's movies.
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I don't know if there is someone for everyone. Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state.
