28 quotes found
“Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions.”
“The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of t...”
“When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin' things themselves. ...”
“[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.”
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)”
“It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.”
“And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.”
“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money...”
“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time”
“Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.”
“Its ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? Theyre totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above a...”
“She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would wonder why she was doing this, struggling against commercial interests at a corporate hospital wh...”
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact th...”
“The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.”
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposit...”
“I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their cou...”
“The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public.”
“Corporations are not legal persons with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”
“People keep saying someone should fix the system, the system is corrupt. What they dont get is; they are the system. Its just like how people hate McDonalds and Coca Cola. People say they are evil ...”
