Corporation Quotes

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
― attributed to Abraham Lincoln but discredited.

“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.”
― Will Self

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“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, Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back

“Stress also desynchronizes activation in different frontocortical regions, which impairs the ability to shift attention between tasks.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“The people running a corporation are occasionally criminally responsible when the corporation has done something illegal; however, they are not when the corporation does something legal yet immoral -it is outside the realm of guilt.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Sickness and disease have been turned into corporate profit centers.”
― Steven Magee

“Every time we make a choice that takes energy from supporting corporations that are based on profit and greed for a few, we put more energy into building a system that is based on truth and abundance for all.”
― Heidi Barr, Woodland Manitou: To Be on Earth

“The corporate controlled government is in the business of misinformation of the masses in order to boost the profits of toxic corporations.”
― Steven Magee

“Her parents didn't get it. Life was different now. The future, her future and that of everyone else her age, had blown up in slow motion. She lived the way she did because greed had sucked the juice out of the world and it was no longer possible to get one of those humble but promising jobs that led, with hard work and perseverance, to something that might be considered a career. Instead you competed with ambitious, underpaid people on the Indian subcontinent for the sucky customer service jobs, or you might choose to go the tech route and work as a coding slave, or sign noncompete and binding arbitration agreements with some major corporation that still required human bodies to do their dirty work for them.”
― Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

“A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be employing slaves or child laborers in their garment factories or dumping toxic waste.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Ever wonder why big car companies pay two percent tax while the guys on the assembly line pay forty?

Corporations are so big you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system.”
― Sheldon Pacotti, Chris Todd , and Austin Grossman

“Government corruption: It is more important for a corporation to be able to sell lots of guns than it is to remove guns from their mentally ill customers.”
― Steven Magee

“If a person starts a wildfire, it is called ‘arson’. If a corporation starts a wildfire, it is called a ‘normal aspect of business’.”
― Steven Magee

“The corporate government disability system is blatantly corrupted and you may be in serious trouble if you ever need to use it.”
― Steven Magee

“Sick people are among the most profitable items in the corporate world.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump’s people are merely demonstrating to the world what has been known to fraud researchers for a very long time: Engaging in lies and fraud is a normal aspect of corporate government.”
― Steven Magee

“In the areas of police complaints, health and safety, disability, and corporate regulations, the government is absolutely scandalous.”
― Steven Magee

“The thing that I am looking for in the next presidential election is a female that represents the people and not toxic corporations.”
― Steven Magee

“Most mainstream news agencies have a biased corporation behind them that is controlling the news feed.”
― Steven Magee

“In the era of corrupt government regulators, it is the common people’s responsibility to regulate the government and corporations.”
― Steven Magee

“The masses need to change their thoughts away from thinking that the military is protecting them to the reality that the military is allowing toxic corporations to damage their health to boost profits.”
― Steven Magee

“Moral and intellectual homogeneity is a precondition for communion with the corporation, which is the corporation’s transcendent purpose.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“To elaborate that the ears collaborate on hearing though in separate locations is to deliberate on the obvious.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Hegel predicted that the basic unit of modern society would be the state, Marx that it would be the commune, Lenin and Hitler that it would be the political party. Before that, a succession of saints and sages claimed the same for the parish church, the feudal manor, and the monarchy. The big contention of this small book is that they have all been proved wrong. The most important organization in the world is the company: the basis of the prosperity of the West and the best hope for the future of the rest of the world.”
― John Micklethwait, The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

“We have seen how giving vast amounts of fake (inflated) money to unethical corporations and banks is like throwing gasoline on a smoldering and deadly fire.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“Businessmen and corporations must develop good competitive strategies to survive, and find cooperative opportunities to grow the pie.”
― Avinash K. Dixit, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

“And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.”
― Brian De Palma

“Sea World has owned fifty-one orcas called Shamu. The original Shamu was captured in 1965, after animal collector Ted Griffin harpooned the calf’s mother in Puget Sound.”
― Jason Hribal, Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance