Shelby Lynne Quotes

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

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.

Corporations are the new dictators.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

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

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

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.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

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

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

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We are ruled by big business and the government as its paid hireling … the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of CEOs.

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

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

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 opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

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

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.