338 Quotes by Naomi Klein

‏قدمت العالمة الاقتصادية مارلين رايس التي كانت في منتصف السبعينات في طليعة ‏حركة تدعم حق المرضى في عدم الخضوع للمعالجة بالصدمات الكهربائية شرحا بليغا عن الوضع الذي كانت فيه عندما محيت ذاكرتها ومعظم تاريخها الثقافي. تقول رايس: بت الان أعرف ماهو شعور حواء عندما خلقت ‏من ضلع آدم بدون أي ماض. أنا اشعر بالفراغ الذي شعرت به حواء!

Memory, both individual and collective, turns out to be the greatest shock absorber of all.

No, they're not blind, they're evil. They see just fine

A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy.

In much of the Southern Hemisphere, neo liberalism is frequently spoken of as "the second colonial pillage": in the first pillage, the riches were seized from the land, and in the second they were stripped from the state.

The slogan for contemporary capitalism--fear and disorder are the catalysts for each new leap forward

We face so many overlapping and intersecting crises that we can't afford to fix them one at a time. We need integrated solutions, solutions that radically bring down emissions while creating huge numbers of good, unionized jobs and delivering meaningful justice to those who have been most abused and excluded under the current extractive economy.

We learn the same lesson over and over again: in highly unequal societies, with deep injustices reliably tracing racial fault lines, disasters don't bring us all together in one fuzzy human family. They take preexisting divides and deepen them further, so the people who were already getting most screwed over before the disaster get extra doses of pain during and after.

The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.