#monopoly

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 #bit #dig #hughes #monopoly

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#economics #fascism #monopoly #politics #socialism

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#citizens #control #dangerous #education #federal

But no man has a monopoly of conscience. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#man #monopoly

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

— Drew Carey

#brothers #first #game #had #hated

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

— Herbert Croly

#enthusiasm #faith #good #good faith #monopoly

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#appreciate #begin #better #better world #country

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

— Robert Trout

#company #east #established #india #monopoly

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

#building #came #did #good #i

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. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#against #come #developed #did #economy