quotations about corporations
And then a great nation
Put into operation an evolutionary plan
Now mighty corporations and politicians rule the land
Wish I could remember when
We were more innocent
THE KINKS
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"Now and Then"
The public corruption is the foundation on which corporations always depend for their political power. There is a natural tendency to coalition between them and the lowest strata of political intelligence and morality; for their agents must obey, not question. The lobby is their home, and the lobby thrives as political virtue decays. The ring is their symbol of power, and the ring is the natural enemy of political purity and independence.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869
The United States ... celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
CHRIS HEDGES
"Why The United States Is Destroying Education", truthdig, April 10, 2011
Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Waiting for the Barbarians
No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They thrive. They dance. They live. They love. And they die. And that matters. That matters. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.
ELIZABETH WARREN
speech at Democratic National Convention, Sep. 5, 2012
Corporations are very often useful bodies of men; but they more frequently outlive their usefulness and become corpori mortui to all intents and purposes.
DAVID JENNINGS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time.
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
Antarctica
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
J. G. BALLARD
Kingdom Come
Please don't waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders
The corporation has no choice but to do the will of its master. Corporations regularly allow themselves to be bought out or make decisions that will result in massive amounts of money made in the short term but will result in the collapse of the corporation in the long term. They are programmed to commit a kind of corporate suicide when it suits the stockholders.
WILLIAM IRWIN
30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want to Go to There
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
WENDELL BERRY
Bringing it to the Table
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Progressive Principles
There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?
JAMES MURDOCH
interview, The Guardian, June 6, 2009
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
WOODROW WILSON
"The Old Order Changeth,", The New Freedom
If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going to run things.
NOAM CHOMSKY
How the World Works
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.
CHRIS HEDGES
The Death of the Liberal Class
The corporation's boiling over
Everybody's taking over
WALL OF VOODOO
"Crack the Bell"
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.
RICK BAYAN
The Cynic's Dictionary
A corporation does seem like a family ... a hotbed of passion, rivalry, and dreams that build or destroy careers.
PAULA BERNSTEIN
Family Ties
A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.
EVAN ESAR
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