"We live in the age of corporate organisms. Though no formal announcements have been issued, it's becoming harder to ignore that they have wrested control of the Earth from Homo sapiens and supplanted us as the planet's dominant species. It is these Big Bodies - the multinationals, government bureaucracies, ecclesiastical hierarchies, military organizations, et al. - not individual humans, that generate our era's character - its patterns of wealth & poverty, its technological priorities & ecological peril, its entertainment & political agenda. They have, in short, taken over... The only important question now is how shall we humans respond?"
- - W. David Kubiak

"The government has ceased to function,
the corporations are the government."
- - Theodore Dreiser

"We still have autocracy in industry as firmly seated on its throne
as theocratic kings ruling in the name of god,
or aristocracy ruling by military power;
and the superceded forces represented by these twain,
have become the allies of the power which replaced them. "
- - George W. Russell

"The American press, with very few exceptions,
is a kept press. Kept by the big corporations
the way a whore is kept by a tycoon."
- - Theodore Dreiser

"The remedy in the United States is not less liberty but real liberty
-- an end to the brutal intolerance of churchly hooligans
and flag-waving corporations and all the rest
of the small but bloody despots who are making the word
'Americanism' a synonym for coercion and legal crime. "
- - Archibald MacLeish

"A perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world.
As it is the most shameless, it is the most fearless. "
- - Edmund Burke

"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned
within the United States, it is that every man has a right
to abolish an old government and establish a new one,
This principle is not only recorded in every public archive,
written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood
of a host of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure
by which the United States hold their existence as a nation."
- - James Madison

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed,
the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. "
- - Henry George

"When bad men combine, the good must associate;
otherwise they will fall, one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
- - Edmund Burke

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the world;
indeed it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead

"In politics, experiments mean revolutions. "
- - Benjamin Disraeli