Quotes About Monopoly

There is no doubt at all that the government monopoly over the insurance business had to end. There is a crying need for better service, more innovation, and a comprehensive insurance cover.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.

Why is it, he asked, that wherever a Chilean goes in the world, Neruda and his fucking seashells has already been there and set up a monopoly? He held my gaze waiting for me to counter him, and as he did I got the feeling that where he came from it was commonplace to talk as we were talking, an even to argue about poetry to the point of violence, and for a moment I felt brushed by loneliness.

The State maintains its relative autonomy of particular fractions of the power bloc (including fractions of monopoly capital itself) so that it may ensure the organization of the general interest of the bourgeoisie under the hegemony of one of its fractions.

six corporations control 90 percent of what we read, watch, or listen to. Six corporations. It's a little bit mystifying for me to put it that way. When I say six corporations, it makes it sound as though there's nobody there really making decisions, but in fact corporations don't decide, people in them decide things. We'll talk about the ways in which these corporations decide things in a minute. In

And since one of the main purposes of social policy is to keep the population passive, people with power are going to want to eliminate anything that tends to encourage the population to get involved in planning?because popular involvement threatens the monopoly of power by business, and it also stimulates popular organizations, and mobilizes people, and probably would lead to redistribution of profits, and so on.

Capitalism, like feudalism and slavery before it, is the most enduring, insidious and compelling structure by which a parasitic minority of aristocratic families gets to monopolize life as you know it, and doom You People, the majority, to an insectoid life of debt slavery in office cubicles.

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The pretence of resistance to monopoly would always serve them, as it had served them before, as a plausible and popular cry.

They had one all-important goal: to ensure that church and state maintained sole monopoly over doctrine.

Una mayoría abrumadora de mexicanos cree con fe de carbonero que la propiedad pública del petróleo o el monopolio gubernamental de la energía eléctrica son pilares de la integridad nacional, ejes de la nación y la nacionalidad. Es la convicción, por ejemplo, del gobierno electo el 1 de julio de 2018.

Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else?

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.