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Quotation by Chris Hedges:

You first get people to speak in the language of violence... before you get them to carry out acts of violence. There is nothing benign about the language or the celebration of the gun culture... Because in a societal breakdown that step towards the actual employment of violence is very small.

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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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Type: Prose
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Context Details: speaking at Cost of War conference April 2011
Source: http://warisacrime.org/content/video-cos

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