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describes the "end result" of the war on terror as "a new, more resilient approach to national security, one built not around the state but around private citizens and companies. . . . Security will become a function of where you live and whom you work for, much as health care is allocated already."36

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

when countries are rebuilt by people who don't believe in governments, the states they build are invariably weak, creating a market for alternative security forces, whether Hezbollah, Black-water, the Mahdi Army or the gang down the street in New Orleans.

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Everywhere the Chicago School crusade has triumphed, it has created a permanent underclass of between 25 and 60 percent of the population.

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

As the political scientist Michael Wolfe puts it, "Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are unlikely to do it very well." He adds, "As a way of governing, conservatism is another name for disaster."50

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

As Ken Minihan, former director of the National Security Agency, explained, "Homeland security is too important to be left to the government."

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

When Harberger would return from his frequent trips to Santiago in the fifties and sixties, Gunder Frank recalled that he would lambaste Santiago, Chile's health and education systems—the best on the continent—as "absurd attempts to live beyond its underdeveloped means."26

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

coups, wars and slaughters to install and maintain pro-corporate regimes have never been treated as capitalist crimes but have instead been written off as the excesses of overzealous dictators, as hot fronts of the Cold War, and now of the War on Terror.

— The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

— Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow

“Have you noticed how messed up everything is today? How we put a ‘good’ president in the White House and he kept right on torturing and bombing and running secret prisons? How every time we turn around, someone’s trying to take away the Internet from us, make it into some kind of giant stupid shopping mall where the rent-a-cops can kick you out if they don’t like your clothes? Have you noticed how much money the one percent have? How we’re putting more people in jail every day, and more people are unemployed every day, and more people are losing their houses every day?”

— Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow

“This isn’t how your life turned out. Only how it ended. Your life was beautiful.”

— Dark Matter by Blake Crouch