Chris Hedges Quotes

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

President Bush is a corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what’s really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can’t make that jump; it’s too insane for them.

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.