{"author":"Naomi Klein","author_id":"Naomi+Klein","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["law","legal","victory "],"id":16515,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"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.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["cornel-west","justice","liberalism","love","lovelessness","politics"],"id":34656,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["culture","future","past","present"],"id":48097,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by thousands of people (tens of thousands in the case of the World Social Forum), that were exclusively devoted to popular education about the inner workings of global finance and trade. No topic was too arcane: the science of genetically modified foods, trade-related intellectual property rights, the fine print of bilateral trade deals, the patenting of seeds, the truth about certain carbon sinks. I sensed in these rooms a hunger for knowledge that I have never witnessed in any university class. It was as if people understood, all at once, that gathering this knowledge was crucial to the survival not just of democracy but of the planet. Yes, this was complicated, but we embraced that complexity because we were finally looking at systems, not just symbols.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["capitalism","corporations"],"id":50251,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"You 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.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["america","freedom","image","impressions","peace","war"],"id":77116,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["profit","war"],"id":97358,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["mistake","hell","you "],"id":137646,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["powerful","fast","fast food "],"id":189295,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["democracy","politics","voting"],"id":264191,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"},{"text":"Either 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 from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.","author":"Naomi Klein","tags":["blackwater","corporations","halliburton","profiteering","war"],"id":269268,"author_id":"Naomi+Klein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}