Monopoly Quotes

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. (Steve Ballmer)
Property is only another name for monopoly. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. View quote
Steven Wright
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. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Philosophers are as jealous as women each wants a monopoly of praise. View quote
George Santayana
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields. View quote
Don Tapscott
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. (Michael Pollan)
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action. View quote
Ayn Rand
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. (Camille Paglia)
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. View quote
Azar Nafisi
Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion. View quote
Murray Rothbard
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself? View quote
Murray Rothbard
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. View quote
Earl Warren