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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
TRINITY, n. […] The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Trinity,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1056/
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