Naomi Klein Quotes

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• Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

  Naomi Klein

  War, Law, Economic Models

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

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  People, Tasks, Culture

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• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  Naomi Klein

  Atmosphere, Climate, Corporations

  "Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 15, 2012.

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

  Naomi Klein

  Hope, Fear, Hate

  "From pots to politics" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.

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

  Naomi Klein

  Political, Voting, Democracy

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

  Naomi Klein

  Sprung Up, Sprung

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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• Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

  Naomi Klein

  Freedom Of Speech, Cacophony, Free Speech

  Naomi Klein (2000). “No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies”, Vintage Canada

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• We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

  Naomi Klein

  Letting Go, Nature, Mastery

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• In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Climate, World

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• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

  Naomi Klein

  Powerful, Nihilism, Delicacy

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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• 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 minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

  Naomi Klein

  Science, Community, Political

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

  Naomi Klein

  Arms, Information, Resistance

  "The Shock Doctrine". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

  Naomi Klein

  Point Break, Community, Culture

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Naomi Klein

  What If, Climate, World

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• 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 empty.

  Naomi Klein

  Sky, Limits, Empty

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.517, Macmillan

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• 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 far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

  Naomi Klein

  Rocks, Challenges, Earth

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Community, Balance

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Opportunity, Climate, Historic

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

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  Peace, Reality, Ideas

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• Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

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  Way, Violence, Interest

  "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism". Book by Naomi Klein, 2007.

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• Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

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  Oil, People, Shakes

  FaceBook post by Naomi Klein from Feb 23, 2011

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• It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.

  Naomi Klein

  Reality, Today, Facts

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.

  Naomi Klein

  Lying, Claims, Whole

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• 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 a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.

  Naomi Klein

  Nature, War, Science

  "Climate change is the fight of our lives - yet we can hardly bear to look at it" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2014.

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• It's CNN who really should hold Trump accountable. And because they are trading the short-term fix of increased ratings by focusing on Trump drama - and I'm not saying they shouldn't cover the Russian investigations, of course they should - but the blanket coverage, it's not about news values. It is about ratings. And it comes at a tremendous cost because Trump supporters are fully defended against this. As far as they're concerned, this is a vast conspiracy, it's fake news, it doesn't impact their daily lives, it makes them see Trump as a victim, which he wants to be seen as.

  Naomi Klein

  Drama, Fake, Daily Life

  Source: www.avclub.com

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