Quotes About Monopoly

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.

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

The worst atrocities… Maybe half of them arose directly because the powerful had a monopoly or a near-monopoly on some key capability.

When a small number of companies control both the generation and the supply of energy, it's difficult for new players to enter the market.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

We have outdone the Spaniards in Peru! They were at least butchers on a religious principle, however diabolical their zeal. We have murdered, deposed, plundered, usurped – say what think you of the famine in Bengal, in which three millions perished, being caused by a monopoly of the provisions by the servants of the East India Company?