#monopoly

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ↗

— Bill Owens

#about #after #craft #does #effective

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

#claim #community #found #marked #monopoly

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

#far #general #general rule #go #hands

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

— John Stossel

#better #government #groups #monopoly #private

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#fdr #monopoly #new-deal #roosevelt #business

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

#anyone #gets #into #monopoly #only

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

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

#any #capitalism #capitalistic #company #competition

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

#fight #holds #ii #learned #monopoly

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

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains