Quotes About Corporatism

#1. Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

Arnold Kling

#2. In other words, "free markets" ideology, with its libertarian idealism, has in fact produced Mussolini-style corporatism. And until we learn to call the resulting looting by its proper name, it is certain to continue.

Yves Smith

#3. This is the twenty-first century. The oceans are rising. Mad dictators have access to nuclear weapons. Corporatism and the dumbing down of the media have destroyed the very foundations of democracy. Anyone who isn't afraid is a moron." There

Tommy Wallach

#4. The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

John Ralston Saul

#5. I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.

Edmund Phelps

#6. Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Dean Cavanagh

#7. Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.

Jill Stein

#8. If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties,

Ron Paul

#9. The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

Edmund Phelps

#10. In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.
(III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

John Ralston Saul

#11. The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

Eric Kierans

#12. Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Benito Mussolini

#13. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

Benito Mussolini

#14. For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Ron Paul

#15. Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

Michael Parenti

#16. The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

Michael Parenti

#17. I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more ... all-American.

C. J. Wilson

#18. You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

Ilana Mercer

#19. He reminded me of the typical soap-opera star. His words were fake, his smile was fake, and his very presence affected me like nails on a chalkboard.

Jamie McGuire

#20. I always try to find time to do some graffiti here and there, but most of the time, I have so many walls that are given to me now, so anytime I want to go out and do something illegal, I can just do it legally.

Alec Monopoly

#21. The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

Clement Greenberg

#22. Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

Dorothy Day

#23. You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.

Tom Waits

#24. I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'

Garret Dillahunt

#25. and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of the night you see the stars.

Jenny Markas

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

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#27. Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Bill Maher

#28. It's true, I suffer a great deal
but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese De Lisieux

#29. The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

Aleister Crowley

#30. Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

John Trudell

#31. It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

Chris Hedges

#32. I like that Maersk is a first name. It's like a massive global corporation named Derek.

Rose George

#33. We were not born to sue, but to command.

William Shakespeare

#34. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. Any fight is a spark of life...

Jessica Katoff

#36. Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

Bruce Vilanch

#37. These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Zane Grey

#38. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

Fareed Zakaria