Corporations Quotes - Page 34

• To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

  John Henry Patterson

  Men

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• What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

  Mother Jones

  Powerful, Unions, Corruption

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• Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

  John Adams

  Art, America, Democracy

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.432, Regnery Publishing

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• The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

  Michael Moore

  Real, Pay, Scandal

  "Michael Moore: The Real IRS Scandal Is That ‘They Let General Electric Not Pay Any Taxes’", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

  Dean Smith

  Impact, Want, Facts

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• Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

  Scott Adams

  Innovation, Meteors, Way

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• We have to develop a strong economic message which says every American is entitled to health care through a national health care program. And we're not going to allow these large corporations to push through trade agreements which allow them to throw Americans out on the street and run to China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Strong, Agreement

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Names, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

  Kevin Carson

  Socialism, Coordination, Trade

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• The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

  James Surowiecki

  Typical, Republic, Way

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• The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Light, Government, Needs

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

  Thomas Hobbes

  Body, Worms

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• The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Modern, Invention, Liability

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• Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

  Carl L. Becker

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Different

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• America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Spiritual, America, Arrogance

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.183, Vintage

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• I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary. Clearly people want things that make their lives the way they wish they were.

  John Peterman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

  John le Carre

  Views, Sick, Dying

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• In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Meaningful, Issues, Our Society

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• The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

  William O. Douglas

  Dollars, Earth, Riches

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  School, Cat, Taught

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• Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.

  Leanne Pooley

  Cancer, Motherhood, Knowing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public a false sense that someone is looking after their health interest and some cases even managing their health.

  Ravida Din

  Track, Giving, Giants

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.

  Ravida Din

  Play, Usa, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

  Ravida Din

  Trying, Groups, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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