AMAZON bought Goodreads; monopoly isn't just a boardgame

A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece…

— Thomas Jefferson

Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the…

— Frantz Fanon

“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner has all…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God…

— John Hagee

That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli.…

— Joy-Ann Reid

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

— Frederic Bastiat

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence…

— 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…

— Ayn Rand

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main…

— Anonymous

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance…

— Michael Pollan

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money…

— Laurance Labadie

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach…

— Adolph Rupp

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber