Quotes About Bakan

#1. Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

Joel Bakan

#2. The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.

Nora Roberts

#3. The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others.

Joel Bakan

#4. The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

Joel Bakan

#5. No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.

Gail Carriger

#6. Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

Joel Bakan

#7. By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Joel Bakan

#8. As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

Joel Bakan

#9. The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

Joel Bakan

#10. The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.

Joel Bakan

#11. The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

Joel Bakan

#12. Q: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact? A: Because breasts don't have eyes.

Scott McNeely

#13. Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

Joel Bakan

#14. Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

Joel Bakan

#15. As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

Joel Bakan

#16. These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.

Joel Bakan

#17. A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

Joel Bakan

#18. I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. Good lovers must be good pioneers.

Blake Mundell

#20. To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.

R.W. Erskine

#21. The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

Joel Bakan