#monopoly

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

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

But no man has a monopoly of conscience. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#man #monopoly

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

— Michael Kennedy

#does #hold #israel #league #like

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

— Robert Trout

#company #east #established #india #monopoly

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#believe #good #holders #just #monopoly

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#art #comedians #creative #creative people #enough

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

#dangerous #disarmed #force #government #holds