Naomi Klein Quotes

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

The struggle between Communism and capitalism has been perverting people's analysis of social issues.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

Get up in one of our industrial centers today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with this country.

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.

We buy into all kinds of lies that are sold to us from advertising to Fox news or from the Vatican to Goldman Sachs.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market economy with a market society and claims that capitalism is democracy, you've not only got a massive lie being imposed on the people, but you've got the foundation for a form of authoritarianism and a much more intensive form of class warfare.