Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and Presbyterian minister known for his incisive critiques of politics and society. With a journalism career spanning decades, he has reported for The New York Times and other major outlets, earning a Pulitzer Prize. Hedges is also a prolific author, writing extensively on issues like war, human rights, and social justice, blending personal experience with historical analysis to challenge prevailing narratives.
Book summaries for books written by Chris Hedges
Quotes
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
The seduction of war is insidious because so much of what we are told about it is true - it does create a feeling of comradeship, which obliterates our alienation.
There is a kind of death that soldiers face that is not found in any other profession or walk of life.
The flag becomes a sacred symbol, a religious icon, an unquestioned emblem of the state’s power and virtue.
War exposes the capacity for evil that lurks not far below the surface within all of us.
War is the great purifier, the great enlightener, the great test of courage.
The myth of war entices us and seduces us, even as it calls us to destruction.
War, in the end, is always about betrayal.
We kill to feel alive.
War is a love story.
War is an act of faith.
War is a culture of death.