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Author:Ken Buck

“The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.”

Whole Bigs Issues Industry Bigger Corporations Food Industry Takeovers Big Corporations

“The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.”

Men Should Home Earth Water Air Land Possession Corporations Wilderness

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.”

Stories Government Decision Answers Corporations Our Society

Book:Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy

Source: Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy

“America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.”

Long America Corporations Things To Do Right Thing Long Ago Good Business

Author:Lloyd Blankfein

“Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.”

People Happens Ability Revolution Majors Fruit Corporations Agency Lasting Screws Sellers Looming Paraphrase Abe

Author:Robert David Steele

“We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.”

World Profit Deception Corporations Imaginary Virtual World

Book:Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.”

People Ifs Years Poor Streets Color Prison Corporate Corporations Jail Poor People Revenue Contractor

Author:Chris Hedges

“Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.”

Knows World Natural Politician Behavior Caught Corporations Pot Conspiracy Dealer Primates

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.”

Form Our Lives Corporations Malls Playgrounds Sidewalk Venues Opting Out

Author:Robert D. Kaplan

“Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.”

People Wells Certain Values Turns Nations Groups Citizens Organization Corporations

Author:Alan Cranston

“Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).”

May Made Matter Body Seems Suffering Causes Decision Kings Profit Pops Corporations Ruling Medieval Pop Music

Author:Julian Casablancas

“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.”

“Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government”

Government Principles Taken Accepted Corporations Organized Legitimacy Central Government

Book:The Future of Industrial Man

Source: The Future of Industrial Man

“My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.”

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Author:CM Punk

“Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.”

“Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.”

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.”

Looks Hard Government Wealth Solutions Concerned Opposites Corporations Small Business Oppressors

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.”

People Thinking Love Humans Littles Enough Hate Corporations Fifty Cents Love Each Other Slim

Author:Peter De Vries

“Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.”

Men Imagination Sleep Directors Saving Corporations Theologian Naive Deluded

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.”

Knows May Country Certain Church Policy Duty Trade Property Affair Profession Corporations Threatened Nobody Knows Morrow Endowment

Book:Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel

Source: Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel

“I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.”

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Author:Amar Bose

“If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.”

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Author:Max Lerner

“Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.”

Trying Fit Rounds Holes Corporations Squares Peg Cubicles Square Pegs

Author:Robert Breault

“I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.”

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Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.”

Ifs Believe Guy Class Building Ten Block Suits Corporations Executives Rough Pins Make Believe Kindergarten Building Blocks

Author:Lee Iacocca

“And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.”

Thinking Want Feels Situation Harder Workers Customers Corporations Right Thing Feel Better Transnational Corporations

Author:Paul Hawken

“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.”

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Author:Paul Hawken

“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.”

World Bigs Running Nations Influence Right Now Consumers Corporations Big Corporations

Author:Daryl Hannah

“Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.”

Saws Plans Groups Musician Corporations Rock N Roll Daylight Pension Pension Plans

Author:John Lee Hooker

“I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.”

People Should Cases Successful Groups Teaching Information Hundred Should Have Valuable Access I Realized Corporations Seminars

Author:Leonard Orr

“I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.”

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Author:Ken Livingstone

“The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.”

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Author:Frederick W. Smith

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”

“At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.”

Media Politician West Granted Corporations Discourse Public Discourse Moguls

Author:David Puttnam

“Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.”

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Author:Bob Brown

“If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.”

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Author:Nina Bawden

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.”

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Author:Earl Blumenauer

“The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.”

Rights Republican Corporations

Author:Joe Baca

“Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.”

People Has Beens Helping Study Organization Corporations

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.”

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Author:Howard Coble

“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?”

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Author:Upamanyu Chatterjee

“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.”

People Feels Trying Body Media Terrible Hollywood Wake Up Corporations Undercut

Author:Rob Delaney

“I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.”

People Thinking Believe Might Care Culture Individual I Believe Social Realizing Groups Fashion Circles Corporations Religion And Politics

Author:Joshua Ferris

“...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?”

“To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.”

People War Values Interest Forget Common Business Gone Taxes Rate Radio Determined Defense Finance Corporations Witch Relevant Burned Earning Risen Whim Interest Rate Martians

Author:James Grant

“Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.”

Today Lost Lines Ability Focus Bottom Corporations Earning Bottom Line Razors

Author:John Maeda

“For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.”

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Author:Kathryn Minshew

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