Gabriel Byrne Quotes

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

We are ruled by big business and the government as its paid hireling … the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of CEOs.

Finance capital curtails democratic rights, narrowing the scope of democracy and paving the way for the open and violent dictatorship of fascist rule.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Combinations [large corporate conglomerates], governed entirely by the law of greed … threaten the integrity of our institutions.

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations ... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation.

I don't want to see this country run by big business and big labor.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.

Out of this modern civilization, economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

Dictators don't come from elections.