“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.” NeedsPersonsStatesDesireSocialRightsEconomicPolicyToolsIndependentCorporationsAdvancingEconomic PolicyRegulatorsIndependent Person Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
“" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."” WellsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMachinesPaidIndependentShoesCorporationsBusinessmanLicenseMotorAutomobileDealerCraftsmanGeneral MotorsCobblersRetainers Author:Paul A. Baran
“I have chosen to cast my lot with independent media outlets because I believe that only through independent reporting where you are not beholding to the interests of corporations or government are you able to really aggressively pursue the truth.” BelieveGovernmentAbleI BelieveInterestMediaIndependentCastsChosenPursueCorporationsWhere You AreOutletsIndependent Media Author:Jeremy Scahill
“Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.” ThinkingWorldMayUseGovernmentChallengesViewsBrainInformationSeriousHugeInvolvedIndependentFinancialPopulationProfitCorporationsFederal GovernmentConfusingCautionDiscomfortBrainwashedIndependent ThoughtThink For YourselfInformation Is Power Author:Timothy Leary
“The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.” PeopleShouldBelieveAbleRepublicanIndependentElectionDemocratConservativeCorporationsProgressive Author:Bernie Sanders
“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” WorldWayFactsHappeningsIndependentCorporationsStringsDisruptionCombiningOperatorsBuckminster FullerStrings AttachedNo Strings Attached Author:Jonathon Keats
“I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!” BigsSeemsWishMediaDangerNew YorkRight NowIndependentPostsCorporationsFrighteningNew York TimesAmazonTrailblazing Author:Matt Drudge
“In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.” MadeKnownCasesScientistResponsibleIndependentEnvironmentalCorporationsHazardsIndependent Women Author:Barry Commoner
“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.” PeopleChildrenLongHas BeensWould BeAmericaLawGrowsDifficultLibertyGrowing UpImagineLandCitizensExpectationsIndependentPropertyWesternCorporationsPresidentialRealmsGuaranteesFarmersOwnershipAbrahamMerchantsPrairieHomestead Act Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan