Naomi Klein Quotes

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

Hope is the mainspring of life.

There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.