Quotation by Chris Hedges:

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

Chris Hedges     (more by this author)

1956 -

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. His most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (2010).

Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quotation reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."

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Country: United States

Type: Prose
Context: Movie
Context Details: The quotation introduces the movie The Hurt Locker (2008), about American bomb detonators in Afghanistan; the movie won six (6) Academy Awards including Best Picture.