Joel Bakan

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

"Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests…"

"The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy."

"The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power…"

"The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit."

"By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments."

"Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vul…"

"As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century me…"