Monopoly Quotes - page 2

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves. (Thomas Browne)
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. View quote
David Harvey
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Think big, think fast. Ideas are no one's monopoly. View quote
Dhirubhai Ambani
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
[J]amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do. View quote
Kalle Lasn
If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. View quote
Mao Zedong
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. (Barack Obama)
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. View quote
Carl Schmitt
There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. View quote
Mario Puzo
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. View quote
Chuck Schumer
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. View quote
Emanuel Celler
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. View quote
Herbert Croly
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. View quote
John Hope Franklin
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. (James Buchan)
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. View quote
Nancy Pearcey
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. View quote
Robert McChesney
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition. View quote
Robert McChesney
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. View quote
Ron Chernow