Naomi KleinI see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on … ▶331Politics
Naomi KleinGLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement h… ▶342Politics
Naomi KleinIt doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of n… ▶365PhilosophyThoughtTime
Naomi KleinYou 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.376HumanityThoughtTime
Naomi KleinDemocracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.365Politics
Naomi KleinOur enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. ✨ FaceBook post byNaomi Klein from Feb 23, 2011345HumanityReading
Naomi KleinWe are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.345Thought
Naomi KleinIf this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collecti… ▶368PoliticsTimeTruth
Naomi KleinThe net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of informati… ▶347Politics
Naomi KleinPeople without memory are putty. ✨ Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.281Humanity
Naomi KleinBecause it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality… ▶337DeathHumanityReading
Naomi KleinWhat we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. <… ▶338LifePolitics
Naomi KleinHope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up. ✨ Naomi Klein (2010). No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition, p.30, Vintage Canada318Hope
Naomi KleinThe theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy … ▶307Reading
Naomi Kleinprotected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage o… ▶275Politics
Naomi KleinThis same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to … ▶308HumanityTruth
Naomi KleinPolitics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. ✨ From pots to politics by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2003.253HopePolitics
Naomi KleinEither 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 shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything fr… ▶3110Truth
Naomi KleinThe 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… ▶309HumanityPoliticsReading
Naomi KleinThe triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.222Thought
Naomi KleinAfrica is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.277Death
Naomi KleinExtreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. ✨ The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Book by Naomi Klein, 2007.277Reading
Naomi KleinLike 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 creators, it des… ▶269Sadness
Naomi KleinWhen 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? ✨ No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No… ▶215HumanityPoliticsReading
Naomi KleinIt (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political … ▶204HumanityPolitics
Naomi KleinIt is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with… ▶237Politics
Naomi KleinWhen 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 (2010). The Shoc… ▶193Politics
Naomi KleinTerrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, pro… ▶237DeathHumanityPolitics
Naomi KleinRegardless 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 to see the group as superconsu… ▶216Politics
Naomi KleinDespite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes,… ▶2410Reflection
