Pancho Diaz

“Verdaderamente el mundo está más que harto de episodios como este, él esperó y ella faltó, ella esperó y él no vino, en el fondo, y esto que quede entre nosotros, escépticos e incrédulos que somos, mejor eso que una pierna rota. Es fácil decirlo pero mejor sería haberse callado, porque las palabras tienen muchas veces los efectos contrarios a los que se habían propuesto, tanto es así que no es infrecuente que estos hombres o esas mujeres juren y vuelvan a jurar, La detesto, Lo detesto,y luego estallen en lágrimas después de dicha la palabra.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“By this point in history—after the 2008 collapse of Wall Street and in the midst of layers of ecological crises—free market fundamentalists should, by all rights, be exiled to a similarly irrelevant status, left to fondle their copies of Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in obscurity. They are saved from this ignominious fate only because their ideas about corporate liberation, no matter how demonstrably at war with reality, remain so profitable to the world’s billionaires that they are kept fed and clothed in think tanks by the likes of Charles and David Koch, owners of the diversified dirty energy giant Koch Industries, and ExxonMobil.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“Neoliberalism’s guiding principle is not free markets, nor fiscal discipline, nor sound money, nor privatization and offshoring – not even globalization. All these things were byproducts or weapons of its main endeavour: to remove organized labour from the equation.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

“A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial. We look for a split second and then we look away. Or we look but then turn it into a joke (“more signs of the Apocalypse!”). Which is another way of looking away.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate