Corporations Quotes

• I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Crush, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Military, Party

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.125, Seven Stories Press

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Doors, Differences

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Money, Government

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• Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Risk, Environmental, Benefits

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• The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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• It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Atheist, Jobs, Believe

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• There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

  David Korten

  Strong, Views, Years

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  Edward Coke

  Soul, Coke, Treason

  Case of Sutton's Hospital (1658)

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• 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.

  Leonard Orr

  Teaching, Successful, Should Have

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• One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, Stories, Answers

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.122, Macmillan

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• I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

  Ralph Nader

  Business, Thinking, Meals

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• The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

  Jim Hightower

  Government, Hotel Lobby, Armadillos

  "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Book by Greg Palast, p. 141, 2002.

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• Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

  Jello Biafra

  Punk, Produce, Mass

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• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  Andrew Mellon

  Jobs, Giving, Break

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• The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

  Dennis Prager

  Heart, Competition, Police

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• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Oil, People

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• People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Loyalty, Brother, Husband

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• 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.

  Barry Commoner

  Independent, Environmental, Hazards

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Historical, Benefits

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.437

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• If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

  Ron Chernow

  Wall, Government, World

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• It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, People, Political

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