David Byrne Quotes

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.

Corporations are the new dictators.

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

Most men are servants of corporations.

The corporate flacks, hacks, lobbyists, and influence peddlers, the practitioners of modern PR ... have become a kind of occupation army in our democracy.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the nation's masters.

The war is on, knife to knife, hilt to hilt, foot to foot, knee to knee, between the corporations of Arkansas and the people.

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.

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.

What freedom? To be wage-slaves, hired and fired at the will of a soulless corporation?

Capitalism will kill competition.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies: Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more In every branch becomes the sale of money.