Chris Hedges quote: "War is necrophilia. And this necrophilia is central to soldiering, just as it is central to the makeup of suicide bombers and terrorists. The necrophilia is hidden under platitudes about duty or comradeship."

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also...
CHRIS HEDGES

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power ...
CHRIS HEDGES

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...
CHRIS HEDGES

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
CHRIS HEDGES

Rape mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which ...
CHRIS HEDGES

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
CHRIS HEDGES

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the...
CHRIS HEDGES

Jesus was a pacifist.
CHRIS HEDGES

I remember this kid said, 'I can't believe we did all this work to come in second,' ... I wanted to ...
CHRIS HEDGES

the perfect chair to sit in or porridge to taste.
CHRIS HEDGES

point us away from the city of man toward the city of God.
CHRIS HEDGES

It ought to be interesting,
CHRIS HEDGES

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function...
CHRIS HEDGES

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t...
CHRIS HEDGES

Losing Moses on the Freeway
CHRIS HEDGES

life of solitude, guilt, anger and remorse.
CHRIS HEDGES

I like new challenges -- I'm following someone strong, ... I'm hoping this will be the place to stay...
CHRIS HEDGES

Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they d...
CHRIS HEDGES

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...
CHRIS HEDGES

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet an...
CHRIS HEDGES

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily,...
CHRIS HEDGES

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
CHRIS HEDGES

if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.
CHRIS HEDGES

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which...
CHRIS HEDGES

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, ...
CHRIS HEDGES

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the tr...
CHRIS HEDGES

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common go...
CHRIS HEDGES

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of ...
CHRIS HEDGES

If anyone knows how fixed the Pulitzers are, it’s the editors at the Times. I was part of a New Yo...
CHRIS HEDGES

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...
CHRIS HEDGES

Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjuste...
CHRIS HEDGES

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.
CHRIS HEDGES

The Highwood plant will produce fewer emissions than most other plants, but they are still emitting ...
ANNE HEDGES

This is a fundamental change in policy and it fundamentally violated the Clean Air Act. Anything les...
ANNE HEDGES

It is the dirtiest way to generate energy on the face of the planet.
ANNE HEDGES

As Montana has more and more coal-fired plants proposed, we have an interest in making sure they use...
ANNE HEDGES

As far as global warming, we are at such a critical stage that every (power) plant matters. We have ...
ANNE HEDGES

This plant will produce thousands of tons of pollution each year, and that is not clean by any stand...
ANNE HEDGES

There is no such thing as clean coal. It's low sulfur, and it's cleaner than coal used to be, but th...
ANNE HEDGES

The more you learn to love yourself, the better actor you will be. That's always going to be my ...
LUCAS HEDGES

You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action...
LUCAS HEDGES

In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I've made over the years, and because I'm ...
LUCAS HEDGES

I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to cr...
LUCAS HEDGES

Tyler has been a great asset for us. He is a smart kid who reads plays ahead of time and makes very ...
DALE HEDGES

It's been an honor to play for him all four years, and I don't think I would play for any other coac...
ASHLEY HEDGES

I felt proud to be on the team the four years I've been playing. It was just amazing. Frank didn't w...
ASHLEY HEDGES

It's awesome to be in the tournament again. In a way, it's just like any other game. But in another,...
ASHLEY HEDGES

Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.
PETER HEDGES

I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenage...
LUCAS HEDGES

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street,...
LUCAS HEDGES

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.
PETER HEDGES

He did a very good job of making a complex story very understandable for the jury.
DAN HEDGES

What are the odds of that?
DALE HEDGES

We made some changes that hurt us. We are a much better team right now, and I know we can play with ...
DALE HEDGES

We are doing a combination of things well right now. On offense, they are working the ball well with...
DALE HEDGES

In high school, I made friends with people in every social group. Or at least that's how I perce...
LUCAS HEDGES

The danger in coming back at that is you're repeating it. Now, what you may try to do is come back a...
DAN HEDGES

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the tr...
DAN HEDGES

Closing arguments may be the most fun and the most dramatic, but opening statements are in many ways...
DAN HEDGES

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
PETER HEDGES

These are the people who under-stand the true value of a lease. People without a finance background ...
JEFF HEDGES

The first thing we ask a customer is if they are interested in hearing about what the savings could ...
JEFF HEDGES

We're trying to make up for a deficit. This doesn't necessarily end the droughtit will probably ta...
JEFF HEDGES

When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS

Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS

Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS

Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL

I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. An...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Strong female leads are important.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It'...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I'm for comfort, not for style.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I like to explore things.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors ...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it&#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hamm...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a mi...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd n...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for ot...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer...
CHRIS PINE

I've always been the type of guy that wants to change, adapt and morph from year to year.
CHRIS JERICHO

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
CHRIS ROCK

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying ...
CHRIS ROCK

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the res...
CHRIS ROCK

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
CHRIS ROCK

Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Ro...
CHRIS ROCK

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
CHRIS ROCK

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjo...
CHRIS ROCK

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th...
CHRIS ROCK

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with s...
CHRIS ROCK

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star o...
CHRIS ROCK

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
CHRIS ROCK

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
CHRIS ROCK

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'C...
CHRIS ROCK

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whol...
CHRIS ROCK

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, ...
CHRIS ROCK

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she'...
CHRIS ROCK

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou...
CHRIS ROCK

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
CHRIS LOWE

I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK

There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL

The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su...
CHRIS FUSSELL

I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because...
CHRIS PINE

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,...
CHRIS EVANS

I don't appreciate Internet cyber bullying at all. It's not fair. With me, it gets hard beca...
CHRIS STOKES

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that rea...
CHRIS PINE

It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo...
CHRIS MILK

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with tha...
CHRIS ROCK

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise...
CHRIS PAVONE

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes ba...
CHRIS PINE

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go...
CHRIS O'DOWD

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I ha...
CHRIS MESSINA

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to ...
CHRIS PINE

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
CHRIS FUSSELL

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, act...
CHRIS JERICHO

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spande...
CHRIS JERICHO

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr...
CHRIS EVANS

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I sti...
CHRIS LOWELL

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a bas...
CHRIS EVANS

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Ex...
CHRIS SACCA

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so ...
CHRIS HARDWICK

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most s...
CHRIS HARDWICK

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle...
CHRIS PRATT

I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I...
CHRIS SACCA

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
CHRIS HART

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co...
CHRIS ROCK

We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to...
CHRIS HARDWICK

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN

Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite w...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don'...
CHRIS PINE

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find my...
CHRIS LEDOUX

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tel...
CHRIS PINE

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting ...
CHRIS SMITH

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It'...
CHRIS CARTER

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think m...
CHRIS KATTAN

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun...
CHRIS SACCA

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionate...
CHRIS HADFIELD

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN

A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM

2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER

We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
CHRIS PINE

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN

'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup...
CHRIS YOUNG

Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ...
CHRIS HADFIELD

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ...
CHRIS O'DONNELL

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.
CHRIS BURKMENN

War is necrophilia. And this necrophilia is central to soldiering, just as it is central to the makeup of suicide bombers and terrorists. The necrophilia is hidden under platitudes about duty or comradeship.

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War is necrophilia. And this necrophilia is central to soldiering, just as it is central to the makeup of suicide bombers and terrorists. The necrophilia is hidden under platitudes about duty or comradeship.

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