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

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
Laura Ingraham

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Henry James Sumner Maine

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

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig

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

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.
Michael Kennedy

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
Herbert Croly

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

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

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
Frederick Pollock

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

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Robert Trout

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

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
Phillip E. Johnson

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
John Perry Barlow

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

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

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
Robert Toombs