This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. — Henry A. Wallace 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
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To stay ahead globally, we don't need to protect our monopolies from innovation - we need to protect innovation from our monopolies. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy,… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in… — Jack Conte 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
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
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy...Liberals must stress at all times the virtues… — Jo Grimond Copy Share Image
And I know that sounds outrageous, but it's true. Such monopolies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are trying to stay with us… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“The tendency, which exists wherever industrialism is well developed, for trusts and monopolies to control all industry, leads to a diminution of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think we've seen all sorts of instances in which monopolies, once they become incumbents, are not incentivized to innovate in the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Markets are free when human beings have equal opportunities to influence the production and trade of desirable goods and services... Some people… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. — John Griffin Carlisle Copy Share Image
I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
