Corporations Quotes

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

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.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

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.

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

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

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.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

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.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs.

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

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.