Quotes Tagged "monopoly"

Zamanism is about creating power and private resources for all in society by destroying bureaucratic and monopolistic control on society.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes. [Letters to John Taylor, 1814, XVIII, p. 484]

Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

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

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

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

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

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.