Corporations Quotes - Page 6

• Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Technology, Law

  "Stallman's Law". www.gnu.org. 2012.

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• I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Baseball, Team, School

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Government, Soul

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Government, Cells

  "Jerry Brown, on Corporations and Jobs, We the People Radio Network archives". December 1995/January 1996.

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• The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Office, Lawyer, Delicate

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• 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

  Reality, Law, Purpose

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• Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Democracy, Might, Limits

  Fareed Zakaria (2007). “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.

  Jim Hightower

  Real, Party, Government

  "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

  Frank Chodorov

  Widows, Lines, Pay

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.52, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Government, Heaven, Advertising

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.17, Verso

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• nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Men, Political, Creative

  "Globalists interviewed: they admitted they controlled the government". Article by Jon Rappoport, jonrappoport.wordpress.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

  Thomas Malthus

  Agriculture, Causes, Institutions

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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• There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

  Michael Cera

  Thinking, Hands, Stubborn

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strong, Sick, Healthy

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Military, Hype, Principles

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• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Years, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

  Billy Bragg

  Argument, Consumers, Offers

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• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Business, Organization, Soul And Body

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• For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.

  Julia Hill

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

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• The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

  B. C. Forbes

  Class, Public Opinion, Railroads

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• After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

  B. C. Forbes

  Hard Work, Men, Vacation

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• Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Government, Organization

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• Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.

  B. C. Forbes

  Vacation, Numbers, Majority

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• You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Business, Justice, Soul

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