Chris Martin Quotes

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

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.

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

All businessmen are scum.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

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

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

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

I spent 33 years ... most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Capitalists personally are often the mildest-mannered men that ever shattered a family or drained a workingman of his marrow.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable

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.

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

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.

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

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

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.