Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

“Silence isn’t the opposite of sound, it is merely its absence.”

— Terry Pratchett

“History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with.…

— Michele Boldrin

And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered…

— Stefan Heym

The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing…

— George Reisman

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics…

— Anne Applebaum

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence…

— George Reisman

“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic…

— Tony Judt

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity,…

— Ashley Montagu

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what…

— Marwan Barghouti

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan