There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. (Jane Smiley)

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

Related topics

buy cheat corner free human market nature off thing others

Related quotes

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo