Corporations Quotes - Page 8

• It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.

  Ralph Nader

  Fighting, Jail, Campaigns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

  Ralph Nader

  Media, Damage, Worried

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Winning, Law, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

  Ralph Nader

  Arbitration, Tools, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who are cutting funds for state universities and doing everything they can to turn them in training centers to fill the needs of corporations. This new and intense attack on both the social state and higher education completely undermines the public nature of what education is all about.

  Henry Giroux

  Cutting, Wings, Numbers

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, Dollars, Pieces

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

  Betty Dodson

  Art, World, Easy

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Earth, Argument, Stills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hip Hop, Movement, Television

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. August 15, 2005.

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• My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Military, War, School

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• We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

  Satish Kumar

  Making Money, Slave, Profit

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

  Satish Kumar

  Mean, Making Money, Economy

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

  Satish Kumar

  Numbers, People, Meaning Of Life

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I think of companies like Nokia having anthropologists who study how people use cell phones, who do that kind of commercial and marketing work, selling out to corporations. I wonder if that has something to do with the image of the more innocent anthropologist, now gone.

  Lily King

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.

  Jason Silva

  Couple, Communication, Technology

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Support, Campaigns, Minimum Wage

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international institutions. So, for example, the Clinton administration was very influential in shaping the WTO treaty, and, because of the way the US domestic political system works, this meant that corporations could use the US government to wield a huge influence.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Political, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Banking, Developing Countries

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.

  Thomas Pogge

  Thinking, Majority, Dollars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Large multinational corporations, often acting through their industry lobbies, exert a powerful influence on the formulation of domestic rules and on their application - but their influence on supranational institutional design is even larger because it faces practically no opposition there.

  Thomas Pogge

  Powerful, Design, Acting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and be as well-organized as they are. This does not come natural to us more intellectual types, as we tend to be averse to hierarchy and groupthink; we don't like to be part of anything like a disciplined and well-organized team or movement. But the alternative is to continue losing politically - which means continued failure to protect the world's poor, who are really bearing the brunt of our disorganization.

  Thomas Pogge

  Powerful, Team, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There exist better models of decisionmaking, for the governance of states, corporations and other large organizations, for example in Germany. We need to study such models and promising pathways on which our existing decisionmaking procedures can be gradually reformed.

  Thomas Pogge

  Organization, Pathways, Example

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that are run for profit. The profit comes from running the business efficiently and keeping the products and services up to date and competitively priced.

  Philip Kotler

  Running, Common, Economic

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Most employers I speak to, they want to create jobs and give decent salaries. Some small and medium companies say to me they cannot afford to pay the living wage. I say "what about if I gave you a business rate cut?" and they say, yes, ok. We want companies which are skilled up, generating more profit, more corporation tax - we should not be embarrassed at success, as long as they pay their taxes.

  Sadiq Khan

  Jobs, Cutting, Giving

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!

  Matt Drudge

  New York, Independent, Media

  Source: noworldorder.com

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