Naomi Klein Quotes

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

You put me in here a cub, but I will come out a roaring lion.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

Rock bottom is a crisis... and everyone wants to avoid crisis. But what 'crisis' means literally is 'to sift' - like a child who goes to the beach, lifts up the sand, and watches all the sand fall away, hoping that there's treasure left over. That's what crisis does.

With loss comes growth.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.

In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Don't fear change - embrace it.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.