Change Quote by John Ralston Saul

“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

“When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are…

— Daniel Suarez

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of…

— Aldous Huxley

“The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting. The…

— James Altucher

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our genetic commons, our shared resources, or our democracy.…

— Wenonah Hauter

For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian…

— Gar Alperovitz

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”

— Jerry Ash

“Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage ourselves, an…

— Ian Parker

In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

— Ricardo Alarcon