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Barry Commoner

"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production."

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"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production."

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Amber Hurdle

"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."

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"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."

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"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

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"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."

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"Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles."

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Amber Hurdle

"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."

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"I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly."

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"CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything."

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Amber Hurdle

"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on."

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"The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities."
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"In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards."
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"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."
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"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
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"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
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