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No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its
workers has any right to continue in this country.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control
the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking.
They’re destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and
racial division.
—Jerry Brown, Governor of California
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.
—Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political
activist
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
—Noel Coward, playwright
If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven
solely to satisfy the owner’s greed at the expense of working conditions, of the
