1.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously.
None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Queen Elizabeth II
Let us not be over-earnest. No one of us holds exclusive knowledge.
2.
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
The highest priority is not for the government to dictate instruction, but rather to grant permission for education. All monopolies are abhorrent, yet none more so than the monopoly of knowledge.
4.
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall McLuhan
5.
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
6.
We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
Howard Hughes
7.
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
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War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
Gustave de Molinari
9.
I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.
Evo Morales
10.
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
Abe Fortas
11.
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
Peter Thiel
12.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
Lawrence Lessig
13.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
Vandana Shiva
17.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers
18.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
Ayn Rand
19.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Phyllis Schlafly
20.
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
Nigel Rees
21.
Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
Laura Ingraham
24.
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
John Perry Barlow
25.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Robert Trout
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
James Q. Wilson
27.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough
28.
No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.
John Tamihere
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Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
Ayn Rand
30.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
Phillip E. Johnson
31.
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
Herbert Croly
32.
I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
Steve Ballmer
33.
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
Thomas Sowell
34.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
Tariq Ramadan
35.
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
Nancy Pearcey
36.
There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.
Marianne Williamson
37.
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.
Florence Luscomb
38.
These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.
Frederic C. Howe
40.
Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.
David T. Kearns
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Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.
Joseph Salerno
42.
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
John Stossel
43.
That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.
Joy-Ann Reid
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I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.
Barack Obama
46.
Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.
John Green
47.
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.
Alan Greenspan
48.
[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.
Richard Armour
49.
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.
Kshama Sawant
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You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.
Sam Altman