Corporations Quotes - Page 39

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Lying, Government, Two

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• It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

  Rob Delaney

  Media, People, Trying

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• They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, Hands, Over You

  "This Isn't the Speech I Expected to Give Today". Bill Moyers' Address to the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Brainerd, MN, www.commondreams.org. October 16, 2001.

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Hipster, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.

  Linda Chavez

  New York, Revenge, Team

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• Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

  John Ralston Saul

  Order, Government, Silence

  "On Equilibrium". Book by John Ralston Saul, 2001.

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• As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Artist, Sea, Cities

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• I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

  Ziggy Marley

  Thinking, Government, Should Have

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  Ziggy Marley

  Soul, Substance, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, People, Tea

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• A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

  Doug Berry

  Accountability, Identity, Ethical

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• If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Government, People, Guarantees

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• The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Humorous, Men

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• For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Character, Reflection, Thinking

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• When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

  Robert Reich

  School, Mean, Government

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #6: End Corporate Welfare Now" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2015.

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• Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

  Robert Reich

  People, Needs, Court

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• Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Believe, Government

  "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Helping, Economics, Middle

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• Apple released the upgraded version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. I think the S stands for suckers.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Iphone, Apples

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• Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Islands, America

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• Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.

  Mark Mason

  Moving, Government, Wind

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.

  Jeff Tremaine

  Lawyer, Ends, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Japan, Giving, Answers

  Source: collider.com

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