Naomi Klein Quotes

"One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious."

"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?"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I am about safety for the people and the planet."

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

"The electoral strategy for 2016 was, 'Vote for me; I'm not Trump,' and, 'Trump is dangerous, so get out and vote.'"

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

"My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there."

"Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports."

"Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics."

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

"The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry."

"Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes."

"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."

"Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere."

"The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it."

"This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces."

"After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day."

"I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative."

"Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people."

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

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

"If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be."