Artificial Quote by John Marshall

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal,…

— Edward Coke

The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose…

— William Jennings Bryan

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

— Evan Esar

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the…

— Jim McGovern

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads.…

— Rick Bayan

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

“[A corporation is] a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and…

— Jonathan Haidt

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

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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