A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“A state of shock is produced when a story is ruptured… Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
“You have been negotiating all my life.” So said Canadian college student Anjali Appadurai, as she stared down the assembled government negotiators at the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
There's a property in Panama where Trump has collected somewhere around $30 million just from selling his name to this property - it's somewhere… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue… — Naomi Klein Copy Share
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade… — Naomi Klein Copy Share