Corporations Quote by Joel Bakan

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

— Jim Hightower

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

— Anita Roddick

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

— Joel Bakan

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

— Joel Bakan

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

— Edward Coke

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

— Robert Reich

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

— Harold Coffin

“But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint.”

— Jon Ronson

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power argues that if corporations have 'person hood' under the law, then…

— M.E. Thomas

“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 all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

— Evan Esar