Quotes about Monopolies

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? Votes: 4

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new. Votes: 4

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant. Votes: 3

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. Votes: 3

We protect monopolies with copyright. Votes: 2

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies. Votes: 2

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. Votes: 2

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. Votes: 2

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. Votes: 2

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies. Votes: 2

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. Votes: 2

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. Votes: 2

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. Votes: 2

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. Votes: 2

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them. Votes: 2

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies. Votes: 2

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 legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service. Votes: 2

As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots. Votes: 2

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly. Votes: 2

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant. Votes: 2

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. Votes: 2

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Votes: 0

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. Votes: 0

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. Votes: 0

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. Votes: 0

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression. Votes: 0

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. Votes: 0

Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies. Votes: 0

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. Votes: 0

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. Votes: 0

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. Votes: 0

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 domain and deadly force. Votes: 0

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. Votes: 0

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions. Votes: 0

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations. Votes: 0

money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all. Votes: 0

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?. Votes: 0

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies. Votes: 0

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. Votes: 0