Multinationals Quotes

• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.

  Trevor Manuel

  Country, Eye, Support

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• I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  People, Political, Politics

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• For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Long, Community, Different

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Media, Patterns

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• These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Egypt, Groups

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Equality, Yugoslavia, Community

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• I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

  Dave Foley

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 15, 2002.

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Hollywood

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• There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

  Jon Postel

  Government, Issues, Internet

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• Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

  Frank Gaffney

  Expression, Effort, Prohibition

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• I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Men, One Man

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• In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Past, Poverty, Misery

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

  Keith Olbermann

  Nbc, Media, Cnn

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• United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iraq, United States, Coalitions

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• If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

  Peter MacKay

  Fighting, Iraq, Canada

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• We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Oil, Records, Problem

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• nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Men, Political, Creative

  "Globalists interviewed: they admitted they controlled the government". Article by Jon Rappoport, jonrappoport.wordpress.com. March 2, 2017.

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• The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

  Robert Gilpin

  Technology, World, Corporations

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.260, Princeton University Press

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• To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

  Murray Bookchin

  Warrior, Growth, Warfare

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Breathing, Growth, Green

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Government, Organization, Doubt

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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• As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Wikileaks, World, Surveillance

  "Jeremy Hammond Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2013.

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Breathing

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Imagine, Hard

  Source: therumpus.net

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