Ability Quote by Jim McGovern

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

“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

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

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

— L. Neil Smith

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are…

— Tony Gilroy

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

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

— Henry Mintzberg

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to…

— Larry Ellison