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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. -- Edward Coke
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. -- Lester Bangs
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. -- Ralph Nader
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
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. -- Ben Carson
Corporations must pay tax. -- Gore Vidal
Corporations are the new dictators. -- Gabriel Byrne
Corporations are people, my friend. -- Mitt Romney
Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs -- Hillary Clinton
Corporations aren't people. People are people! -- Barack Obama
Corporations have more power than the government. -- Adam Jensen
Corporations are "worms in the body politic" -- Thomas Hobbes
Corporations cook very differently from how people do. -- Michael Pollan
Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people. -- Rush Limbaugh
Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people. -- Rush Limbaugh
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce
Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn. -- Andrew Jackson
Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other. -- Henry Demarest Lloyd
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. -- Jim Hightower
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing -- Henry Mintzberg
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. -- Harold Coffin
Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. -- Michael Ian Black
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. -- Thomas Jefferson
Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them. -- Chellie Pingree
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. -- Robert Reich
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. -- Eric Kierans
Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money. -- Ben Carson
Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations -- Ralph Nader
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -- Noam Chomsky
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. -- Ralph Nader
Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots. -- Scott Peters
Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes. -- Lois Wyse
Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts. -- Robert Reich
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations -- Brian De Palma
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ... -- Stephen Colbert
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. -- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.' -- Michele Simon
Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles. -- Robert Breault
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. -- Thomas Hobbes
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. -- John Maeda
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. -- Joe Baca
The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq. -- Steve Jobs
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't. -- Paul Gillin
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. -- Brian Behlendorf
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. -- Kalle Lasn
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality. -- John W. Snow
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society. -- Henry Mintzberg
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. -- Douglas Rushkoff
If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist. -- Stephen Colbert
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people. -- Jon Stewart
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed. -- Carl L. Becker
Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid -- Jay Leno
Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River. -- Stephen Colbert
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. -- Larry Ellison
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process. -- Marc Ostrofsky
Corporations are not going to stash their money in the Cayman Islands. We are going to reinvest in America, create jobs, make education available to all. -- Bernie Sanders
Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits. -- Charlotte Laws
Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations. -- David Suzuki
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. -- Tony Gilroy
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable. -- Joel Bakan
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach. -- Ruth J. Simmons
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach. -- Ruth J. Simmons
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? -- Frank Pittman
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. -- Gloria Steinem
Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts. -- Max Barry
The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power ... -- Helen Caldicott
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life. -- James Surowiecki
Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend. -- Mitt Romney
Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line. -- Neil Young
Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined. -- Corinne Maier
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
In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away. -- Morgan Spurlock
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections. -- Hank Johnson
The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers. -- Dennis Prager
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
Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap. -- Darren Walker
I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people. -- Leonard Orr
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. -- Michael Moore
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. -- Molly Ivins
One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. -- Jello Biafra
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. -- Aaron Swartz
Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work. -- George H. W. Bush
The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. -- Amity Shlaes
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others. -- Simon Mainwaring
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. -- Cornel West
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another. -- Simon Mainwaring
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. -- Richard Trumka
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. -- Ai Weiwei
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. -- Bernie Sanders
Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships. -- Simon Mainwaring
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. -- Moby
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability. -- Glenn Greenwald
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way. -- John Grisham
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. -- Philip K. Dick
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people. -- Noreena Hertz
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge. -- Al Franken
The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers -- Dennis Prager
I don't represent corporations. -- Charlie Melancon
Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. -- Mitt Romney
I've been around the bend in corporations. -- Indra Nooyi
American corporations hate to give away money. -- Stephen Ambrose
The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. -- Al Franken
Fascism is when corporations become the government. -- Bill Maher
Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. -- Hillary Clinton
Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations. -- Ralph Nader
Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. -- Tommy Chong
The Internet is corporations all the way down. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges. -- Umair Haque
To survive, men and business and corporations must serve. -- John Henry Patterson
We live in a nation where corporations are people. -- Lizz Winstead
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one -- Bill Moyers

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