Compiled by Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service
This collection
of quotes is intended to be read, taken to heart and made good use of by all
good-hearted folks who are working hard to expose the massive injustice,
corruption, discrimination, environmental degradation, heartless price-gouging,
etc. that is coming from the world’s inanimate corporations that have been
unjustly granted “personhood” AND their “human” wealth- and power-hungry
leaders who have relinquished their “humanity” through their incessant inhumane
actions, which are making the planet uninhabitable.
These quotes are intended to inspire and give courage to the cloud of witnesses who are seeking justice, peace and prosperity and environmental and human rights for the impoverished, the outcasts, the bullied, the displaced, the victimized and the enslaved. Use them early and often. — GK
“Globalization
is but another name for colonization — nothing has changed but the
name. And, just as the East India Company was the instrument for
colonization, today’s corporation is the instrument for globalization.
And, corporatization is but another name for Fascism.” — Urban Kohler
“Slavery is the
legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal
fiction that property is a person.” — Anonymous
“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
“We must bear
in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism and it
must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle
should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the
exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of
imperialism: oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials,
technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments
of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute
dependence.” — Ernesto Che
Guevara
“Corporations are the opposite of good citizens. They bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses.“ Such very real costs ”include the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to market hazardous products, dump wastes into oceans and rivers, pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions, and extract natural resources from public lands at less than market prices. Furthermore, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks, and “golden retirement parachutes” which are written off as tax deductions.” — John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” and The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World”
“An ignorant
population does not look to see the greater way, never questions authorities or
understands rights and therefore provides little opposition to a dictatorship.
If we want to grow as a race we must start educating ourselves. Be able to
learn to discern. Recognize when the media is trying to manipulate us. Whatever
it is we’re subjected to in the media, beware of the hidden ulterior motive.
Perhaps it would be better to boycott this propagandist pap altogether and
instead of being listless or unresponsive, do something worth-while; campaign
for the truth.” — Paul A. Philips
“State sovereignty is a goner. Bankism and Military Capitalism rule the world in all respects now.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor of TRANSCEND Media Service.
Originally published on TRANSCEND Media Service, August 19, 2019.
