Corporations Quotes - Page 2

• I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Political, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

  Jello Biafra

  Punk, Produce, Mass

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• People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Loyalty, Brother, Husband

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• It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, People, Political

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• That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Crowns, Creatures

  King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.

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• In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

  Ron Kind

  War, Cost, Subsidies

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• Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

  Charles Derber

  Responsibility, Government, Greed

  Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge

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• 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

  Harmony, Institutions, Duty

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.23, tredition

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• An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Design, Personality, Individual

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

  John Lydon

  People, Soul, Records

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Media, Patterns

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• As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

  Al Franken

  Powerful, Media, Should Have

  "The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hard Work, Class, America

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Hollywood

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

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  "Romney heckled in Iowa; says "corporations are people". Mitt Romney's speech to fair goers during a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Return, Financial, Process

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• Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

  Dave Barry

  Business, Self, Organization

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Liz Cheney Exposes Howard Dean In Lie About His Connection To George Soros and MoveOn.org". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.newsbusters.org. October 17, 2010.

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• TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

  Norman Lear

  People, Giants, Salary

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.

  Mitt Romney

  People

  "Romney Stops By Iowa State Fair, Gets Heckled". "Morning Edition" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. August 12, 2011.

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• We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Running, Equality, Entrepreneur

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.63, Basic Books

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• Corporations are people, my friend.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Election

  "Mitt Romney says ‘corporations are people’". www.washingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Space, Names, Spheres

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Strength, Strong, Business

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• Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

  Daryl Hannah

  Running, World, Influence

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