(793 quotes found)
“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor”
Helen Keller
“To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.”
Jello Biafra
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate”
Dave Barry
“It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.”
Gordon Mackenzie
“The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls”
Edward Coke
“We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.”
John Snow
“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
William Orville Douglas
“Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.”
Lester Bangs