#corporations

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#fascism #freedom #society #stalinism #totalitarianism

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control. ↗

— Kalle Lasn

#democracy #freedom

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#corporate-culture #corporations #encroachment #freedom #government

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

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay. ↗

— Morris Dees

#cheated #connected #corporations #day #doing

We live in a nation where corporations are people. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#live #nation #people #where

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations. ↗

— Ron Kind

#budget #budget deficits #cannot #corporations #costs

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#big #corporation #corporations #person #talking

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#cars #corporations #drive #ford #i

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#best #big #big corporations #big government #corporations