[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
For the U.S. to take a leap in expanding its footprint in renewable energy, we have to end our reliance on China's… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs. — Lynn Jurich Copy Share Image
“Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was… — Lata Mangeshkar Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
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… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There is so much we don't know about Facebook. We know we have a corporate monopoly that has repeated serious violations that… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets. — David T. Kearns Copy Share Image
Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Democratic women don't hold a monopoly on breaking glass ceilings. It's Republican women, too. We all have been breaking barriers most of… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No party has a monopoly on solutions, and we must stop fighting one another and begin fighting for one another - before… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image