Not every corporation's idyllic.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

— Lee R. Raymond

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

— Chuck D

“The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.”

— Steven Magee

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

— Evan Esar

“Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women’s prison. Had she been a corporation instead of a…

— Thom Hartmann

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

— Don Tapscott

Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to…

— Ben Manski

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

— Rupert Murdoch

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

— Benito Mussolini

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't…

— John Lydon

A corporation has no soul.

— Edward Coke

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?

— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool…

— Joel Bakan

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies,…

— Eric Kierans