"The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy."

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Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

Joel Bakan

#Independent Quotes #Rights Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees...”
“My wife had a go at me last night. She said, Youll drive me to my grave. I had the car out in thirty seconds.”
“The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.”
“Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?”
“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.”

Source : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press
“I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.”
“No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.”
“I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.”

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