Naomi Klein Quotes

I lose faith in any cooperative, commonwealth; cannot see how, after all, there will be incentives.

I would like government to do all it can to mitigate; then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private equity to productively invest in things like education. It's a partnership, not a battle.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

It is ... difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

Politics is the art of providing for the general welfare. It's the great human cooperative institution. It, in principle, is not competitive. It's an attempt of a community of people to get together in order to solve their problems …

Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

Intersectional organizing is the new agenda. And if we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose together. If we win, we're gonna win together.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

When I talk about 'everyday communism', I am teasing a little. It is a provocative idea. But then we all do a lot of sharing a lot of the time. We don't draw up contracts for everything.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.