History Quotes / MegaCorp

-->-- '''[[MegaCorp GigaCorp]] [[{{Slogans}} slogan]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Allegiance}}''

->[[BeneathTheMask THE REVERSE POSITION]]: There are doors and mainframes that regular Orochi employee security cards will not grant access to. [[NGOSuperpower The corporation casts a shadow, and that shadow answers to no outside agency]]. Rumours of [[FantasticScience occult research]], [[SchizoTech technology twenty years ahead of its time]], elevators that [[HeKnowsTooMuch nosy employees]] enter [[KilledOffscreen but never exit]] - only the board of directors know for sure. The eight heads hold secrets...

-->--'''''FightClub'''''

->'''Doctor:''' You blood-sucking ''leech!'' You won't stop until you own the entire galaxy, will you? Don't you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?\\
'''Collector:''' Mm, we have tried war, but the use of economic power is far more effective.

->''"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 [[UsefulNotes/JosephStalin Stalinism.]]"''

->'''Wanda:''' There's pretty much only three corporations that control everything. There's Chrysler, Fox TV, and Campbell's Soup.\\

->''“Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. [[InherentInTheSystem Simple as that]]. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. In the Middle Ages it was the Catholic Church. They had a great logo, too. You might have seen it, and they had more branches than Starbucks. Go back before that, and it was Imperial Rome. It’s a natural process as old as humanity.”''

->''“The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did. They always will… They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by ''[the power of]'' government, keep them in their proper spheres.”''

-> ''"It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution.” The "other extreme", he said "says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value." He added, "Personally, I believe it's better to give a foodstuff a value so that we're all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water."''

->''“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 [[JosephStalin Stalinism.]]”''

->It’s nice to know that I can live in a country where everyone agrees that net neutrality is a good idea and yet the FCC will probably undo it all anyway because the phone companies need to fuck you over jussssst a little bit more. I already have a mystery $11 surcharge on every goddamn Verizon bill. God forbid that pound of flesh be enough for these monsters. No no, please hold my Netflix hostage and leave me no other choice but to fork over an extra $5. I don’t know how you people live with yourselves.

-->-- '''Emmet''', ''Film/TheLegoMovie''

->Ruby was sitting next to the heir to the single wealthiest company in the world. The [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Schnee Corporation]] had their hands in everything Ruby could name. They did anything and everything and had... well, whatever they wanted.
-->-- The fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10317587/1/Hypothermia Hypothermia]]''

->''"Those on the left backed by [=NGOs=] will say that access to air is a human right. However, oxygen is just like anything else. It's a commodity. People want it. And a market value should ascribed to it...Once we know what air is worth, we'll know how large the subsidies need to be [[PoesLaw to keep poor people breathing.]]"''

-->--'''Admiral Dougherty''', ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection//

->''“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 [[JosephStalin Stalinism.]]”''\\

--'''Noam Chomsky'''

->''"[[OlympicGames The Olympics]] are a vile spectacle. Corporate greed given special laws to facilitate their profits at the expense of public funds, followed by an extended exercise in nationalism with deeply disturbing militaristic aspects such as the installation of fucking missile batteries on the top of council homes just in case they needed to shoot a plane out of the sky or something, because obviously nothing goes wrong if you shoot a plane out of the sky over a major metropolitan area. Ooh, and the helicopter-based snipers! Those were great too."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/ on]] the 2012 Olympics

->''"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power."''
-->-- '''BenitoMussolini'''

->''"We are free today substantially but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few."''
-->--'''UsefulNptesJamesMadison''', the "Father of the Constitution"

->''"The standard breed of evil mega-corporation. The one that somehow runs the government, justice system, media, salvation army, and ice cream vans."''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]]'''

->''“Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. [[HobbesWasRight Simple as that]]. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. In the Middle Ages it was the Catholic Church. They had a great logo, too. You might have seen it, and they had more branches than Starbucks. Go back before that, and it was Imperial Rome. It’s a natural process as old as humanity.”''

->''"Those on the left backed by [=NGOs=] will say that access to air is a human right. However, oxygen is just like anything else. It's a commodity. People want it. And a market value should ascribed to it...Once we know what air is worth, we'll know how large the subsidies need to be to keep poor people breathing."''

-->-- [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Croshaw]]