“As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.”

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 4, Democracy Ltd., p. 85

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Canadian writer, musician, filmmaker and legal scholar 1959

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