Conscience Quote by Evan Esar

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

— Henry David Thoreau

“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

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

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

— Robert Reich

A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people…

— William Jennings Bryan

It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities…

— John Paul Stevens

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

— John Marshall

“the law cannot respect the conscience of flesh-and-blood human beings unless it also recognizes conscience claims brought by the corporations they form.”

— John Corvino

A corporation has no soul.

— Edward Coke

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

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

— Anonymous

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the…

— Noam Chomsky