Corporations Quotes - Page 23

• One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

  Charlton Heston

  Mom, Rocks, Government

  "Charlton Heston Speech Highlights Second Day of NRA Convention". transcripts.cnn.com. May 20, 2000.

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• The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  America, Covering, Giants

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• Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

  John Currin

  Lawyer, Painting, Attacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Country, Government

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• The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, Thinking, Clothes

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Gone Away, America

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Sexy, Art, People

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Jobs, Land, Promise

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Strong Women, Want

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• Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

  Al Pacino

  Fighting, People, Sometimes

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.

  Tom Robbins

  Race, Gone, Stories

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• There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

  Cornel West

  Derivatives, Driven, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job doesn’t always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it’s useful.

  Ellen Page

  Religious, Jobs, Pain

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Any successful corporation, if they adopt the three, they're going to be not just wealthy but they're going to be balanced. A lot of corporations adopt exercise, discipline, no affection. But you must maintain the three, because it's part of what you need. You need physical stimulation, you need mental stimulation and of course you need emotional stimulation.

  Cesar Millan

  Successful, Exercise, Emotional

  "Cesar Millan Interview" by David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.

  Michael Shannon

  Running, People, Giants

  Source: variety.com

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• We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.

  Angela Davis

  Jobs, Moving, Numbers

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Hands, People

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Spirituality has to play an important role, particularly in resistance movements. The institutions we are fighting against - corporations and governments - use alienation as one of their primary weapons. A big part of their messaging is intended to make people feel separated from each other, which disempowers them, which makes them ever easier to exploit. This is really a spiritual weapon they are using. It isolates people and breaks their spirit.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Spiritual, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Smart, Technology, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Scary, Ignorant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Two

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.157, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

  Umair Haque

  Business, Yesterday, Challenges

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• The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.

  Joel Bakan

  Business, Thinking, Government

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• Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.

  Joel Bakan

  Business, Government, Organization

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