Quotes About Corporate Greed

#1. The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Lee Whitnum

#2. Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Simon Mainwaring

#3. We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Cornel West

#4. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Suzy Kassem

#5. Corporate greed controls political will.

Aaron B. Powell

#6. People who foster dependence on illicit drugs such as heroin are regarded among the most unscrupulous pariahs of modern civilisation. In contrast, pushers of licit drugs tend to be viewed as altruistically motivated purveyors of social good.

John Braithwaite

#7. I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Chloe Sevigny

#8. I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Adam Nevill

#9. When the greedy executives of rich religions go before Him, they will say, "Remember me for who I was." And God will answer, "I do remember but you have forgotten who you use to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Dana Spiotta

#11. I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

John Sweeney

#12. Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Robin R. Meyers

#13. 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 by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.

Eric Schlosser

#14. One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Trent Reznor

#15. Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

Bill Johnson

#16. After Jacob had worked for Laban for seven years, do you know what happened? Laban fooled him and gave him his ugly daughter Leah. So to marry Rachel, Jacob was forced to work another seven years.

So, you see, children, the Bible clearly teaches us you can never trust an employer.

Joseph Stein

#17. I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Eleanor Catton

#18. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Bernie Sanders

#19. You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

Steven Magee

#20. To enter the corporate rat race, you need to become a rat.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#21. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.

Suzy Kassem

#22. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

Adriano Bulla

#23. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

Barack Obama

#24. The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

James Morcan

#25. The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.

Owen Jones

#26. Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Elizabeth Warren

#27. Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

Marvin Ammori

#28. The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.

Annie Proulx

#29. I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

Paddy Considine

#30. I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

Terry Tempest Williams

#31. Where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.

Luis Carlos Montalvan

#32. Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

John Charles Chasteen

#33. The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.

David Smail

#34. Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

Cynthia Dill

#35. Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

Aleksandar Hemon

#36. The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.

Cynthia Dill