Avoided Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

— Peter Drucker

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

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

— Anonymous

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social…

— Tibor Kalman

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

— Alex Gibney

If corporations are to remain a legitimate instrument of collective action, they must concern themselves directly with the well-being of those party to, and…

— Punit Renjen

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and…

— Jerry Brown

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

— John Marshall

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

— Noam Chomsky