Quotes About Corporatocracy

#1. In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

Karen Armstrong

#2. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?

Sarah Waters

#3. We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

Howard Zinn

#4. In a word, a concert hall is a place where middle-class white people can feel safe together.

Christopher Small

#5. Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Willie Stargell

#6. Life is like a train: some are entering it to begin the trip while others are living it because the trip is over

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. To me, the most important thing was to treat people the way you want to be treated. Some people say that I'm a mean person. Well, you know what? The person that's saying that is probably a dipshit and I put them in their place! I have a knack for doing that.

Dave Mustaine

#8. The best things in life are FREE and available in abundance..." said the Master.

Vivek Rajan Vivek

#9. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

Noam Chomsky

#10. We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

Ian Svenonius

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

Thomas Piketty

#12. Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.

H.L. Mencken

#13. 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

#14. My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#15. We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

Nick Clooney

#16. We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Peter Kreeft

#17. Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all ... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous.

Noam Chomsky

#18. One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.

Elizabeth Berg

#19. The spark is still there. The problem with sparks was that they were born both bright and short-lived.

Codi Gary

#20. Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Privatization and deregulation constitute the outsourcing of democratically elected government with a moral mission to corporations that have a profit-making mission. The effect is to turn democracy into corporatocracy. PROFIT

George Lakoff