87 Monopoly Quotes
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Famous Monopoly Quotes
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. — Steven Wright
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital. — David Harvey
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. — Ludwig von Mises
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it. — Joe Strummer
Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly. — Gerald Celente
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson
You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one. — Naval Ravikant
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. — Raoul Vaneigem
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. — Henry A. Wallace
If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. — Lucky Luciano
The road to profits is paved with unfair advantages. — Lewis Howes
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Short Monopoly Quotes
- Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. — Queen Elizabeth II
- Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly. — Dhirubhai Ambani
- Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. — Ted Kulongoski
- The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. — Grayson Perry
- Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. — Gustave de Molinari
- The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. — Sir John Richard Hicks
- I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. — Magnus Carlsen
- Monopoly is the condition of every successful business. — Peter Thiel
- Monopoly is business at the end of its journey. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
- Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it. — Rupert Murdoch
Monopoly Game Quotes
Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up. — Patrick Rothfuss
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly. — Ronald Reagan
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly. — Uwe Boll
I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game — Sayings
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game. — Noel Whittaker
Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there's a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins. — Craig Ferguson
[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly. — Richard Armour
Monopoly Power Quotes
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit. — Thomas Paine
Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands. — Theodore Kaczynski
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. — Jacob Appelbaum
The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly. — Albert J. Nock
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power. — Joseph Sobran
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. — Robert Anton Wilson
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. — James L. Barksdale
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute. — Frank Knight
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. — Joe Baca
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More Monopoly Quotes
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. — Ayn Rand
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. — Frederic Bastiat
But in no way should any of this be taken to mean the Bolsheviks established effective structures of governance. Far from it: the Bolshevik monopoly went hand in hand with administrative as well as societal chaos, which Lenin’s extremism exacerbated, causing an ever-deepening crisis, which he cited as justification for his extremism. — Stephen Kotkin
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. — Elena Kagan
Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth. — Janet Yellen
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. — Whitney M. Young
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas. — James David Vance
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior. — Jedediah Purdy
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. — Ellsworth Huntington
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity. — Harold Innis
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin
Its mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future. — Saifedean Ammous
There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working. — Gina Rinehart
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie. — Henrik Ibsen
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. — Andrei Gromyko
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country — Salmon P. Chase
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have. — Paulo Freire
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware. — Mary Elizabeth Lease
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. — N. R. Narayana Murthy
No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being. — Jose Rizal
Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else. — Jack Welch
In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly. — Milton Friedman
There has never been anyone like you…and there never will be again. You have been given a complete and total monopoly over the business of being you. Your main thing is to not give that up. To BE YOU. To do what only YOU can do. — Ryan Holiday
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty, especially farmers, working-class people, and the very poor. — Pope Clement VIII
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. — John Hope Franklin
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females. — Dale Spender
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline. — Thomas Jefferson
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. — Earl Warren
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly. — Peter Thiel
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