#corporations

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 opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#government #civilization

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#ceos #corporations #delusion #inequality #service

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. ↗

— Joe Baca

#corporations #darker #had #like #republicans

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

#consumer #corporations #force #gets #given

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ↗

— Edward Coke

#commit #corporations #nor #outlawed #souls

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations. ↗

— David Korten

#awareness #corporations #global #globalization #huge

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

#air #choke #collapsing #corporations #crushed

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 assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. ↗

— Robert Reich

#democracy #first-amendment #government #politics #public-assembly

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#corporations #crush #fighting #focused #gold

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#clients #corporations #discipline #like #me