# Quote — Joel Bakan, The Corporation

> 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.

- Author: [Joel Bakan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan.md)
- Book: [The Corporation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation.md)
- Page: 158
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joel_Bakan#The_Corporation:_The_Pathological_Pursuit_of_Profit_and_Power_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-corporation-is-not

## More from this book

> 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, of unlimited numbers of people.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-genius-of-the.md)

> The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

p. 153 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-corporation-was.md)

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

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/as-institutional-psychopaths.md)