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Quotes from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Naomi Klein

born 1970 Canada

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As a means of extracting information during interrogations, torture is notoriously unreliable, but as a means of terrorizing and controlling populations, nothing is quite as effective. (p126)

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. (p409)

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

...extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. In a way, it had happened already to the antiwar movement.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Naomi Klein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.