Quotes and Sayings About Corporations
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
-- Adam McKay -
The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.
-- Al Gore -
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
-- Andrew Mellon -
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).
-- Andrew Tobias -
Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
-- Andy Stern -
Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
-- Anita Borg -
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
-- Ann Macbeth -
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
-- Annie Lennox -
In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
-- Antony Jay -
I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
-- Arthur Rock -
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
-- Atom Egoyan -
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
-- Ben Stein -
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
-- Bernie Sanders -
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
-- Bob Black -
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
-- Brian De Palma -
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
-- C. Wright Mills -
The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
-- Caitlin Stasey -
It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
-- Cecile Richards -
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
-- Cesar Chavez -
The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.
-- Charles Derber -
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation
-- Charles Petzold -
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
-- Chris Hedges -
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
-- Daley Thompson -
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
-- Dan Savage -
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin