Quotes About Corporations Greed

#1. 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

#2. We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Pablo Picasso

#3. The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

Jim Hightower

#4. Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Kenneth Patchen

#5. You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

Viola Davis

#6. And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Edward Abbey

#7. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Aaron Swartz

#8. Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Thomas Piketty

#9. People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Trevor D. Richardson

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

Steven Magee

#11. 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

#12. We write to go on living, after we have died.

Jenim Dibie

#13. That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

Barbara Mandrell

#14. If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

Jodi Picoult