“Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.”

—  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

Quoted in John Poynder, Literary Extracts (1844), vol. 1, p. 268. https://archive.org/stream/literaryextracts01poynuoft#page/268/mode/2up
This is often misquoted as "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"

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