{"quotes":[{"text":"Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["commodity","dividends","experience","inspirational","knowledge","knowledge","knowledge-wisdom","monopoly","networking","remain","selective-thinking","sharing","sharing-thoughts"],"id":698,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and monopolization of the shoe industry. Shoes are heavily subsidized. Every shoe must be approved. Producers must be domestic. They must adhere to a certain quality. They can't discriminate based on foot size or individual need. Prices rise, and some people lack shoes, so the Affordable Shoe Act forces everyone to buy into an official shoe plan or pay a fee. Here we have a perfect plan for making shoes egregiously expensive. The entire country would be consumed with the fear of being shoeless if they lose their job. The left wing calls for a single shoe provider to offer universal shoes and the right wing meekly suggests that shoe makers be permitted to sell across state lines.Meanwhile, libertarians suggest that we just forget the whole thing and let the market make and deliver shoes of every quality to anyone from anyone. Everyone screams that this is an insane and dangerous idea.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","economics","free","free-markets","freedom","government","interference","laissez-faire","law","libertarian","liberty","markets","monopoly","non-aggression-principle","politics","regulations","socialism","statism","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":36731,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["governments","monopoly","myths","preservation","violence"],"id":52321,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.","author":"Louis Theroux","tags":["monopoly "],"id":65352,"author_id":"Louis+Theroux"},{"text":"...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.].","author":"John Adams","tags":["celts","chaldeans","clergy","greeks","hindu","hinduism","islam","knowledge","monopoly","muslim","persians","priesthood","priests","protestant","reformation","romans","science-vs-religion","sect","teutons"],"id":86477,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.","author":"Benito Mussolini","tags":["communism","economics","fascism","monopoly","politics","socialism"],"id":99344,"author_id":"Benito+Mussolini"},{"text":"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.","author":"Richard Armour","tags":["conversation","humor","monopoly"],"id":151577,"author_id":"Richard+Armour"},{"text":"In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ('the public domain'), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...The State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.","author":"Murray N. Rothbard","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","collectivism","force","free-market","freedom","gang","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","monopoly","nap","non-aggression-principle","socialism","statism","taxation","theft","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":178484,"author_id":"Murray+N.+Rothbard"},{"text":"Politics is just show business for ugly people.","author":"Jay Leno","tags":["media","monopoly","politics"],"id":179523,"author_id":"Jay+Leno"},{"text":"Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["addiction","athletics","business","competition","culture","economy","entitlement","freedom","habit","humanity","intelligence","monopoly","nationalism","oppression","patriotism","politics","power","pride","religion","spirituality","sports"],"id":242354,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}