Corporations Quotes - Page 25

• The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

  James Surowiecki

  Typical, Republic, Way

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• The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Light, Government, Needs

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

  Thomas Hobbes

  Body, Worms

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• The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Modern, Invention, Liability

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• Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

  Carl L. Becker

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Different

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• America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Spiritual, America, Arrogance

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.183, Vintage

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• I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary. Clearly people want things that make their lives the way they wish they were.

  John Peterman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

  John le Carre

  Views, Sick, Dying

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• In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Meaningful, Issues, Our Society

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• The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

  William O. Douglas

  Dollars, Earth, Riches

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• 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.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  School, Cat, Taught

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• Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.

  Leanne Pooley

  Cancer, Motherhood, Knowing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public a false sense that someone is looking after their health interest and some cases even managing their health.

  Ravida Din

  Track, Giving, Giants

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.

  Ravida Din

  Play, Usa, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

  Ravida Din

  Trying, Groups, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

  Robert Crumb

  Couple, Special, Lines

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

  Lindsey Graham

  Government, Class, Long

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.

  DJ Shadow

  Soapbox, Levels, Extremes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

  Liza Featherstone

  Issues, Progress, Culture

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

  Mark Shields

  Lobbyists, Subsidies, Pay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are in the process of dissolving thousands of state-owned companies and converting them into stock corporations. We even plan to accelerate this development. In contrast, it is the party's responsibility to improve the lives of the people, and this is where our citizens have great confidence in us. Party members who commit crimes are severely punished.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Party, Responsibility, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Powerful, Animal, Names

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• The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

  Barry Libert

  Army, Cubes, Disappear

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