Naomi Klein

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

— Naomi Klein

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

— Naomi Klein

'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

— Naomi Klein

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

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I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

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Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

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“I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has. —JOHN TRUDELL”

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A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort…

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I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And…

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“Trump has surrounded himself with masters of chaos—from Tillerson to Mnuchin. And chaos has a long track record of sending the price…

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“That he won at all is the result of an electoral college system originally designed to protect the power of slave owners.”

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Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.

— Naomi Klein

If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in…

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Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen…

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What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape,…

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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it,…

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It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my…

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While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme…

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And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that…

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“Like so much of cool hunting, Hilfiger's marketing journey feeds off the alienation at the heart of America's race relations: selling white…

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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government…

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“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one…

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Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether…

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Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that…

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“The ability to discount darker people and darker nations in order to justify stealing their land and labor was foundational, and none…

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“All my parents wanted was the open road and a VW camper van. That was enough escape for them. The ocean, the…

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“Here is what needs to be understood in our bones: the spell of neoliberalism has been broken, crushed under the weight of…

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“McDonald's, meanwhile, continues busily to harass small shopkeepers and restaurateurs of Scottish descent for that nationality's uncompetitive predisposition toward the Mc prefix…

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“And though often forgotten, the more radical wing of the second-wave feminist movement also argued for fundamental challenges to the free market…

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“Four years ago, when I started writing this book, my hypothesis was mostly based on a hunch. I had been doing some…

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It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free…

— Naomi Klein

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

— Naomi Klein

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

— Naomi Klein

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

— Naomi Klein

The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.

— Naomi Klein

That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

— Naomi Klein

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

— Naomi Klein

One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

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“created a performance-based image that was impossible to shame—because his brand was being shameless.”

— Naomi Klein