Naomi Klein

Author, Activist Canadian Born 1970 (age 56)

Activist and author critiquing disaster capitalism and climate crisis.

375 quotes

"Art and culture are tools for imagining the worlds we want to create."
Art
"Time is the one resource we cannot manufacture or recover."
Time
"Patience is required, but so is urgency - we must hold both."
Patience
"The most radical act is to care for one another deliberately."
Kindness
"We inherit the legacies of resistance as much as we inherit systems of oppression."
History
"Gratitude for what we have fuels the fight for what we need."
Gratitude
"Creativity flourishes when we stop asking permission and start creating."
Creativity
"The personal and political are inseparable when we are fighting for survival."
Politics
"Strength comes not from domination but from connection and interdependence."
Strength
"We must refuse the false choice between environmental protection and economic security."
Philosophy
"Technology amplifies existing power structures; it does not neutralize them."
Technology
"War against nature always becomes war against communities."
War
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it and organize for it."
Dreams
"Perseverance means continuing to build even when victory seems distant."
Perseverance
"We are not fighting to return to a previous normal; we're fighting for something better."
Change
"Money follows power; changing where money flows requires changing power."
Money
"Health is a right, not a commodity to be bought and sold."
Health
"Adventure comes from stepping into unknown territory for what we believe in."
Adventure
"The stories we tell shape the worlds we believe are possible."
Literature
"Knowledge of what's been tried before prevents us from repeating failed strategies."
Knowledge
"Music and song have always been how movements survive and multiply."
Music
"Faith in human capacity for change is not naive; it is evidence-based."
Faith
"Leadership means serving the movement, not being served by it."
Leadership
"Work that extracts life from the earth or people is not work worth defending."
Work
"Happiness is a political choice when it comes from living in integrity."
Happiness
"The most dangerous addiction is not heroin or cocaine but the addiction to consumption itself."
Politics
"We cannot shop our way to sustainability."
Change
"Disaster communism is about recognizing that in times of crisis, we must think collectively."
Justice
"The role of a writer is to name the unnameable and to make the invisible visible."
Literature
"We are not facing a climate crisis; we are facing a crisis of choices."
Freedom