Corporate Oppression Quotes

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

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.

American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker.

While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that's probably where our similarities stop.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?

Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

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.

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

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.