Corporations Quotes

• The Internet is corporations all the way down.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Internet
  • Corporations

• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

  

  George Monbiot
  • Government
  • Advantage
  • Theory

• When scientific research is increasingly funded by private corporations that have a financial interest in particular outcomes of that research—is the drug effective or not?—scientific objectivity is undermined. When universities are more interested in patent royalties than in the open sharing of scientific information, the public suffers. There are hundreds of important political and economic issues surrounding science and technology. Sociology of science, at its best, has done much to clarify these issues. But sloppy sociology, like sloppy science, is useless or even counterproductive.[

  

  Alan Sokal
  • Interest
  • Research
  • Sociology

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

  

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Punished

• In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

  

  Ian Bremmer
  • Control
  • United States
  • China

• Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Innovation
  • Individualism
  • Dinosaurs

• If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Problems
  • Profit
  • Corporations

• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Walther Rathenau
  • Self
  • Conscious
  • Restless

• This was the Mecca of the American Dream, the world that everyone wanted. A world of sleek young women (allied with Slenderella to be so) in shorts and halters, driving 400-horsepower station wagons to air-conditioned, music-serenaded supermarkets of baby-sitter corporations and culture condensed into Great Books discussion groups. A life of barbecues by the swimming pool and drive in movies open all year. It did't appeal to me. Fuck health insurance plans and life insurance. They wanted to live without leaving the womb. It made me more alive to play a game without rules against society, and I was prepared to play it to the end. A tremor almost sexual passed through me as I anticipated the comming robbery.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Women
  • Game
  • Play

• I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.

  

  Adam Lashinsky
  • Transform
  • Corporations
  • Digitally

• The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Purpose
  • Natural
  • Restraint

• The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Human being
  • Court
  • Corporations

• The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Simplest

• When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Man
  • Campaign
  • Corporations

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

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Corporations

• I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.

  

  Gavin McInnes
  • Money
  • Corporations
  • Meddle

• When I came to the U.S., Kraft sponsored my green card, so I was at Kraft foods and I owed them, I felt. But then as my life purified more and more, I felt that that corporation was not doing the right things for the world. That led me to a company that makes organic baby products. It is very pure in its actions and how it deals with others.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • Action
  • Baby
  • Doing

• They have taken more money out of people's pockets than it was necessary so I plan to return some of it back to people and to the corporations in order to hopefully reinvest the proceeds in order to grow the economy.

  

  Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • People
  • Money
  • Corporations

• The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.

  

  Barry Crimmins
  • Means
  • Corporations
  • Checks

• Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of the 20th century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable...it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.

  

  Gabriel Kolko
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Monopoly

• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Learning

• People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Running
  • Economics

• We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

  

  Ed Ayres
  • Humans
  • Computer
  • Monsters

• Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Computer
  • Planes
  • Telepromter

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