Corporations Quotes - Page 8

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

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.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Essentially the soul of the planet is being controlled by corporations.

Corporate newspeak leads to corporate nothink.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.

Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

A corporation has no soul.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.