Quotes About Monopoly

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

But what looked like a more diverse and open media world, where anyone could be a reporter or reach an audience, is turning into one where a very few companies control the information pipelines.

The purity of a language dispossesses it of its wealth; a correctness that is all too rigid takes away its strengh and manhood. In a city as big as Paris, forty learned men are procured each year, at no expense, who infalliably know what is pure and polite in their mother tongue and what is neccessary for the monopoly of this junkshop.

while Harry Anslinger claimed to be fighting the Mafia, he was in fact transferring a massive and highly profitable industry into their exclusive control.

The Mafia paid Harry Anslinger to launch his crusade because they wanted the drug market all to themselves.

and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And

The railroad they built yonder wasn't even a decent road, but they'd been granted all that land by a rotten Congress that they'd bought up—land on both sides of the tracks for miles and miles, east and west. That's what they were after, you see. They got all that land along the right of way—hundreds of thousands of acres—and it never cost them a cent of their own money.

The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

Fast money? Would you rather get boardwalk on your first roll or would you rather win the game of monopoly?

Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing—care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant.

We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport. In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures. It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe that they have the opportunity to complete the long merger between man and machine—to redirect the trajectory of human evolution.