Chris Hedges Quotes

All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned.

Chris Hedges

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• People always want to doubt you.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Want
  • Doubt

• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Thing

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Teaching
  • Profession

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • He

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Always
  • Call

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  

  Ovid
  • Why
  • Nothing
  • Details

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Health
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

  

  Gemma Jones
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Heaven

• All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Power
  • Challenge
  • Moral