Being Quote by Russ Feingold

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked…

— Eric Schlosser

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

— Josh Fox

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

— Daniel Suarez

“Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other’s sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.”

— Franklin Foer

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the…

— Noam Chomsky

The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very…

— John Ralston Saul

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through…

— Joel Bakan

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Two trends are primarily responsible for today’s hyperconcentration of wealth inAmerica— the collective decisions over time by America’s corporate power elite to take a…

— Hedrick Smith

“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