Monopoly Quotes - Page 14

• Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Games, Hell

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• ... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Allies, Wielding Power

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• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Struggle, Sovereign, Spheres

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• To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Hate

  Don Feder (1996). “Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?”, p.135, Regnery Publishing

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• No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

  Steve Coogan

  Religious, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Benefits, Suppression, Doubtful

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.344

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• The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, Thinking, Government

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• These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Remember, Bigs, Big Business

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• The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

  Peter Thiel

  Talking, Careers, Investing

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• I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Use, Helping

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• Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Couple, Attitude, Sea

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• From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

  Laurance Labadie

  Order, Land, Rights

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and see competition, it must be freed of insider speculation, be transparent, all people must be aware of the statistics. If we can bring transparency to our economy, we can fight corruption.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Fighting, Government, Long

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• Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.

  Margaret Hodge

  Government, Competition, Important

  "Parliamentary watchdog: too often private sector contractors' ethical standards found wanting". www.opendemocracy.net. December 10, 2014.

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• So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

  "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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• Yes, the South-becoming always poorer-and the North-becoming always richer ...Richer, too in the resources of weapons with which the superpowers and blocs can mutually threaten each other. In the light of Christ's words (Mt. 25), this poor South will judge the rich North. And the poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food, but also deprived of freedom and other human right-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialist monopoly and political supremacy at the expense of others.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Judging, People

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• I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

  Barack Obama

  Language, Comfortable

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

  Woody Allen

  Comedy, Bigs, Believer

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• Bravery is not man's monopoly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Bravery, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.302, Rajpal & Sons

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• In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Government, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

  Evo Morales

  Catholic

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• You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Competition, Want

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• You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

  Sam Altman

  "Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup". Sam Altman's lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.

  Evo Morales

  Religious, Catholic, Belief

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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