Corporations

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

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A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for securing individual profit without individual responsibility.

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I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly ... they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences – they're not interested in free markets.

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For all their alleged power, big corporations are often powerless when it comes to the simple task of surviving. As Williamson notes, “Only 67 of the firms in the Fortune 500 in 1955 remained there by 2011.” “The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 has fallen from almost 60 years old in the 1950s to less than 20 years currently,” a team of Credit Suisse analysts wrote last month. And the death rate is accelerating.

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The United States ... celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.

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Given the extensive involvement of state violence in the process by which the corporate elite not only achieved its wealth in the past but continues to maintain and augment it in the present, it is clear that the massive inequalities of wealth that characterise present-day “capitalist” society are radically inconsistent with any approach to justice in holdings that is even remotely Nozickian.

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Corporations are people, my friend … course they are!

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Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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We ought not to encourage vexatious prosecutions, which tend to throw corporations into confusion.

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The Court are bound to consider all the circumstances of the case, before they disturb the peace and quiet of any corporation.

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That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

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We ought, as far as we can by law, to support the government of all societies and corporations, especially this of the city of London; and if the mayor and aldermen should not have power to punish offenders in a summary way, then farewell the government of the city.

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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

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Cities are immortal.

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A corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created.

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It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

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