“Large corporations too often think they can steal designs from individual artists, especially women, without payment or consequences.”— McArthur Law Firm, smcarthurlaw.com
“Interesting that military drones are almost always thought of as airplanes (Reaper, Predator, etc) while in the consumer market 'drone' now exclusively means quadcopters. So much so that the terms have now become synonymous.”— Chris Anderson, twitter.com
“If you look at the world and say yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse. Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to co…”— Markus Bones, markusbones.tumblr.com
“Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism....We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not ag…”— Theodore Roosevelt, stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net
“A strong market is like a high tide: Everyone can make money, but it’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.”— Warren Buffett, books.google.com
“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”— Warren Buffett, berkshirehathaway.com
“When are we gonna stop pretending it's regular people's fault the planet's dying because they wont go vegan or take 5 minute showers and start actually blaming corporations that produce astronomical pollution and dump toxic waste directly into the mouths of great whales like”— queer space communist, twitter.com
“I am more of a centrist than a radical when it comes to capitalism, in that I feel like… to dismantle capitalism before everyone has had a chance to enjoy it is the height of privilege…so yes let’s dismantle capitalism, but can we just get some of it first?”— Roxane Gay, youtube.com
“We have been told our entire lives that if we work hard we can achieve whatever we wish. That's simply untrue. Someone forgot to add one detail to that adage: You must be born into a world of opportunity and choice. That world does not exist to all, only to some. And those born into the world of opp…”— Dina Leygerman, huffingtonpost.com
“There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace. The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”— Al Goldstein, spectator.org
“Why haven’t other liberation movements faced the same kind of commodification? Why is there no market for a “This is what a socialist looks like” shirt, or flowery “Black Power” mugs?”— Sarah Fletcher, feministcurrent.com
“Various oppressive systems – from patriarchy to white supremacy to capitalism and beyond – have had a say in what it means to present ourselves “respectfully” for centuries. The last thing that we need is for our antidote movements to replicate those same hierarchies.”— Melissa A. Fabello, everydayfeminism.com
“Since insulin literally keeps people alive, the Big 3 insulin producers have already tried to argue that value is a good reason to keep the prices high.”— James Elliott, thenation.com
“We say "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" when the focus should be on the fact that there is no ethical PRODUCTION under capitalism. Everything produced under the capitalist mode of production is a result of exploitation. The focus on consumption rather than production places more em…”— Mond Sankara, facebook.com
“In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“A lot of what goes on these days with high-flying companies and these overpaid CEO’s, who’re really just looting from the top and aren’t watching out for anybody but themselves, really upsets me. It’s one of the main things wrong with American business today.”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“Let me explain #NetNeutrality if FCC dismantles it & you get internet from Verizon, they may force you to use YAHOO as your search engine (because they own it) & make you PAY to use GOOGLE. Would you like that?”— twitwar2017, twitter.com
“What would you think of a world in which people couldn’t afford to look online for jobs and kids couldn’t afford to do their online schoolwork? For that matter, would you be troubled if news and information about some controversial matter became tougher to find online because the major providers of…”— Sun-Times Editorial Board, chicago.suntimes.com