Monopoly Quotes

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

Government, Legal, Against

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright

Game, Wrong, Makes

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama

Wisdom, Long, Democracy

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Andrew Jackson

End, Control, Find

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin

Give, Possible, Stage

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson

May, Means, Production

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
Frederic Bastiat

End, Rich, Learn

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

Money, School, Country

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Spiro T. Agnew

Men, Government, Elected

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough

Government, Same, Actually

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster

Sense, House, Invention

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
John Haggai

God, Through, Honor

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
James Buchan

Wisdom, State, Virtue

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers

Time, Power, History

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
Drew Carey

Game, Losing, Played

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
Charles Schumer

Truth, Anyone, Trouble

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Azar Nafisi

Religion, Happiness, Women

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
Steve Wozniak

Good, Thought, Why

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

Great, Home, Easy

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Wislawa Szymborska

May, Place, Group

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.
Ron Chernow

Street, Wall, Stock

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
Terry Eagleton

Justice, Humanity, Problem

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
Howard Hughes

Anyone, Wants, Bit

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
Steve Ballmer

Until, Somebody, Tells

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
Serj Tankian

Society, Everything, Fish

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.
Joe Baca

Power, War, Wisdom

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
John Charles Polanyi

Truth, Found, Belief

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Tried, Ideals, Idealism

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
John Stossel

Government, Away, Private

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo

Learned, Free, Genius

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