Corporations quotes
333 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy."
"Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other."
"So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations."
"There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs."
"The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times."
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"There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations."
"Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person."
"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."
"The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations."
"Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people."
"I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker."
"The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies."
"The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build."
"Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money."
"There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation."
"The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown."
"Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions."
"The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people."
"The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful."
"In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best."
"In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power."
"I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself."
"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations"
