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

Quotes to Explore

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
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