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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its
corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is
one of the great absurdities of our time.

—Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction writer

I do not believe maximizing profits for the investors is the only acceptable
justification for all corporate actions. The investors are not the only people who
matter. Corporations can exist for purposes other than simply maximizing
profits.

—John Mackey, cofounder and CEO of Whole Foods Market

I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott
without the government making them into criminals and try to protect
corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

—Ziggy Marley, musician

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of
their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

—Kalle Lasn, Estonian-Canadian filmmaker, author, and magazine editor

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations