Concentration Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

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

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't…

— Noam Chomsky

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it…

— Bernie Sanders

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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— John Marshall

“Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn’t say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t written with that idea; corporations aren’t mentioned…

— Thom Hartmann

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

— Evan Esar

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

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

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