The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined.
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company. " Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism. ' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation. ' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism. ' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C. E. O. s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.
I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it. . . Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton.
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.