Naomi Klein Quotes

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Naomi Klein

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 8, 1970

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

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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 inspiration?

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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

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That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.

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

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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.

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My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.

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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

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

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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

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

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I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with, without understanding the pact between a lifestyle brand and its consumer base and how that really transformed the global economy in the 1990s.

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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

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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.

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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.

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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.

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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

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The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.

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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

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