We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.

— Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty)

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16 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:35:55.400 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone.

- Am I getting it through to you, Mr. Beale?

- You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.

- There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT and T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

- What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute price-cost probabilities of transactions and investments...

- We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.

- The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

- And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war, or famine, oppression or brutality.

- One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock.

- All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

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