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
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. — Kshama Sawant 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
Big telecommunications monopolies - many of whom now seek to be content providers as well - shouldn't be able to price others… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication.… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
“Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves with the pretext that affairs… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you… — Ian Bremmer 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
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
International carriers need to be given greater role in our skies on all routes like several other large countries to make our… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that,… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before -… — William T. Vollmann 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
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
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
“More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe… — Franklin Foer 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
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
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
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
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
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
“These monopolies, and many more, gave individuals or groups the sole right to control the production of many goods. They impeded the… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Some big pharmaceutical companies have engaged in dirty tricks to extend their patents, holding monopolies on certain drugs to pad their profits… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
