Corporations Quotes - Page 18

• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Wall, Humorous, Rain

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Self Esteem, Team, Party

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Puppets, Facts, Servant

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 9, p. 258, 1977.

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• It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Long, Long Runs

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Risk, Development, Appreciated

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Organization, Interesting, Together

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Circles, Mature

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it.

  Lois Lerner

  Blow, Years, Giving

  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

  Charles Derber

  Government, Illusion, Century

  Charles Derber (2014). “Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Modern, Responsible, Controlled

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.74, Routledge

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• The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.

  Germaine Greer

  Powerful, Government, Order

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

  Evan Esar

  Privilege, Individual, Conscience

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• The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."

  Al Gore

  Philadelphia, People, Firsts

  "Philadelphia Daily News", October 21, 2005.

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• If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

  Charley Reese

  Selfish, Army, Circles

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• SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Government, Important, Quests

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• The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Taken, Government

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.

  C. Wright Mills

  Order, Decision, Political

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.

  John Ralston Saul

  Thinking, Years, Civilization

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Billionaire

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Wings, Ideas

  Source: gawker.com

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• Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

  Hillary Clinton

  Democracy, Prosperity, Ceo

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

  Ed Ayres

  Real, Rights, Friendly

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• Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

  Karl Hess

  Government, Promise, Doe

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