"When you look at a corporation, just like……" — Noam Chomsky
"When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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More Corporation Quotes
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No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
— George Matthew Adams
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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
— Scott Adams
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
— Anita Borg
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
— David Byrne
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News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are…
— Rupert Murdoch
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
— John Marshall
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With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
— Gloria Swanson
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The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.
— Nido R Qubein
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