Best Naomi Klein Quotes
- It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically… Balance
- And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as… Abrupt
- And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps,… All
- And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and… Beyond
- Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate… Action
- There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for… Carbon
- In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too… Ample
- The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. Creation
- It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… Any
- One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process… Already Playing
- Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to… 80s
- Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in… Ads
- Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. Africa
- People without memory are putty. Inspirational
- When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… Basic
- You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same… Actually Cannot
- Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be… Academy
- What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon… Been
- protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage… Advantage
- Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street… Able
- The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… Abuse
- The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield. Battlefield
- Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. Extreme
- Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its… Birth
- Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. Democracy