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Quotes About Monopoly

Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner of civic safety and thus effectively securing a monopoly for themselves on killing at a distance.
~ Margaret Atwood
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
~ Scott McNealy
the key to understanding Hinduism is that it is one faith that claims no monopoly on the Truth.
~ Shashi Tharoor
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.
~ John Hope Franklin
Time remains a mystery to Margaret. A game of Monopoly can consume an afternoon, and an hour on the treadmill seems like forever. But a lifetime passes in an instant.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.
~ Elinor Ostrom
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims
~ Ayn Rand
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~ Ayn Rand
Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.
~ Marvin Ammori
there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the absence of the state exercising its monopoly on the legitimate use of coercive force through law enforcement.
~ Gary A. Haugen
There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
~ Leslie Jamison
I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.
~ Steve Wynn
Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
~ Andrew Yang
Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.
~ Mario Puzo
Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones. Lo espontáneo y natural del sistema se reduce a medida que la sociedad progresa y se crean estructuras legales que regulan el mercado.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The campaign was moving cash around the country as if it were monopoly money.
~ Mark Halperin
Science is a monopoly, not because public education is badly organized, but by its very nature; non-scientists have access only to the results, not to the methods, that is to say they can only believe, not assimilate.
~ Simone Weil
It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.
~ Sophocles
It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.
~ Sophocles
We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge, may not be good at bodily exercises, or have the habits of gentlemen. This is a very common line of remark with dunces of condition; but whatever the dunces may think, they have no monopoly of either gentlemanly habits or bodily activity.
~ John Stuart Mill
I have come to believe that government monopoly schools are structurally unreformable. They cannot function if their central myths are exposed and abandoned.
~ John Taylor Gatto
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.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
~ Emile Chartier Alain