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.

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

You can hear this line at 01:36:47.452 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- 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.

- And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

- Why me?

- Because you're on television, dummy.

- Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

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