Chris Hayes Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Hero, Valor

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes". www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

• I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

  Chris Hayes

  Memories, War, Hero

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

• When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Chris Hayes Compares Climate Change To The Struggle To End Slavery". Now with Alex Wagner, www.newsbusters.org. October 19, 2012.

• Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, War, Usa

  Source: www.salon.com

• The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Media, Obamacare

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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