Naomi Klein Quotes

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

The ruling ideas of each age have always been the ideas of the ruling class.

There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won't - they're the elites. They're smarter, they're running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

The very men to whom the whole country looks to set an example …to accept … the personal inconvenience, are doing exactly the reverse …. They are cackling like wet hens to hold their special privilege.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

Champagne Socialist

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

A subject’s faults a subject may proclaim A monarch’s errors are forbidden game.

Sadly, the pernicious ironies of privilege talk are generally lost on those who claim to be most aware of privilege.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.