Ben Domenech Quotes

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.

The people on the far left, they claim to be about free speech and expression. But as soon as you put something out there that offends them, all of a sudden, no - free speech out the window.

I am not going to stand by as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg silence the voices of millions of conservatives.

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

If we start attacking advertisers because of what somebody said - it's the wrong thing to do.

We live in an age of micro aggressions where people are deemed racist or sexist of phobic for making one wrong tweet.

When controversy calls, corporations can be far more responsive than politicians. The market votes every day, after all.

There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It's just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

I told our employees several times, 'Let's focus on the end user, let's focus on committing to society, and focus on the crisis and doing the right thing, show our corporate social responsibility.' Don't focus on marketing and sales. That's horrible culture.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.

We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.

I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.

Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.

While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.