Naomi Klein Quotes

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• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of…
• Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have…
• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
• I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful.…
• It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer…
• The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing…
• So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy…
• It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door…
• Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.
• It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted…
• Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable…
• Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.
• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
• We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
• Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has…
• This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our…
• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society…
• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really…
• 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?' It…

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