“The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.” MenLooksCountryFactsHelpingTermEconomyMen And WomenLaborCorporationsWorking ManOutsourcingAmerican Economy Author:Lou Dobbs
“The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.” FactsMythConsumersCorporationsServantDevicesPowerlessPuppets Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.” PeopleThinkingFactsGovernmentRolesIssuesProduceIntellectualRaisesForgottenCorporationsDogmaEmbarrassingOrthodoxyRaison D'etreEmbarrassing Questions Author:Edward Said
“The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.” ReasonFactsPoliticsEconomyEssenceInstitutionsPropertyCorporationsLiberalismStrainPrivate Property Author:Peter S. Grosscup
“...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.” WayFirstsHumansMadeFactsMovingInterestingViewsNicePlansModernDyingOfficeWindowSkinsBillionsTinyCellsCorporationsAggressiveUnitsVeteranPensionMoving UpPension Plans Author:Dave Barry