Major Owens Quotes

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

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.

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

President Bush is a corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

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

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

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

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

Corporations are the new dictators.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

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

Selfish men, and this country is not without them, men whose mounting bankrolls loom larger than your happiness, corporations without souls and without virtue, those fearful that this government might impinge on what they have grown to regard as its immemorial right of exploitation will whisper against us. They will call us radicals. They will say that this is the first step on the road to socialism.

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.

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.

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.

Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members.

There is no way for people to vote against Goldman Sachs.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

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

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

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

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