Corporations Quotes - Page 10

• The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

  James Madison

  Abuse, Democracy, Growing

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• We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

  Glenn Ford

  Fate, Cities, Democracy

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• The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.

  Jerry Mander

  Trying, Culture, Roles

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• The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

  Al Gore

  Government, Ice, Sea

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• The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment.

  Eric Kierans

  Commitment, Government, Support

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• The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Decision, Political

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• Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Exercise, Everyday, Doe

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• No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Struggle, Giving, Choices

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• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Years, Support, Community

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• This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Competition, Growth, Way

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• The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Efficiency, Bigs, Remarkable

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• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Scotland, Environmental

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• If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

  Robert Muller

  Country, Mean, Rich Countries

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• The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

  David Korten

  Suicide, Goal, People

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

  Irv Robbins

  Business, Mean, Ideas

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• No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Cost Of Living, Government, People

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• ...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Responsibility, Government

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Management, Economics

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• As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

  Dean Koontz

  Gratitude, Race, Government

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

  Jay Leno

  Kids, People, Safety

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• To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Unions, Awful

  "Majority Report", June 3, 2005.

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• The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, Rights, Justice

  "Colbert Takes On DOMA Supreme Court Decision, Chief Justice Roberts’ Gay Cousin". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

  Kim Stanley

  Ideas, Citizens, World

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• The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.

  Isaac Stern

  Stupid, Greatest Wealth, People

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