CORPORATIONS QUOTES II

quotations about corporations

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

EDWARD THURLOW

attributed, Literary Extracts, from English and other works


Talk about corporate greed is nonsense. Corporations are greedy by their nature. They're nothing else -- they are instruments for interfering with markets to maximize profit, and wealth and market control. You can't make them more or less greedy; I mean maybe you can sort of force them, but it's like taking a totalitarian state and saying "Be less brutal!" Well yeah, maybe you can get a totalitarian state to be less brutal, but that's not the point -- the point is not to get a tyranny to be less brutal, but to get rid of it.

NOAM CHOMSKY

Free Market Fantasies


The "corporatization of America" during the past century has been an attack on democracy--and on markets, part of the shift from something resembling "capitalism" to the highly administered markets of the modern state/corporate era. A current variant is called "minimizing the state," that is, transferring decision-making power from the public arena to somewhere else: "to the people" in the rhetoric of power; to private tyrannies, in the real world.

NOAM CHOMSKY

Profit Over People


You only get two choices: corporate A or corporate B, and that's all you're gonna get.

JELLO BIAFRA

SFSonic, June 21, 2018

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The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

C. S. LEWIS

The Screwtape Letters


It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto--it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

EDWARD COKE

Case of Sutton's Hospital


Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The Roosevelt Policy


The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.

J. G. BALLARD

Kingdom Come


I hope that we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to George Logan, Nov. 12, 1816


The corporation feels no pain.

BETH MACY

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America


If corporations wanted to be legal citizens they could damned well shoulder the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as the benefits.

CHARLES STROSS

Rule 34


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


We live in an age where corporations are people and employees are not.

CLIFFORD COHEN

attributed, goodreads


A corporation often means the protection of a few to the detriment of the many.

F. A. KLEIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other....

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Cryoburn


Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend.

MITT ROMNEY

speech in Des Moines, Aug. 11, 2011


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


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


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


Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

LESTER BANGS

attributed, The Big Book of Business Quotations