TGIF: Great Film Speeches and Monologues

The Money Speech

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!...  You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy.  There is no America.  There is no democracy.  There is only IBM and ITT and AT&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?... 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.

-- Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) pitches Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in Network (YouYube)