#monopoly

All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time." Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?" Yup." A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. "Right after dinner. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#rhage #wrath #play

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#against #bills #civil #civil rights #commission

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#had #information #monopoly #over #people

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#competition #could #demanded #get #higher

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#his #house #invention #inventor #man

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#functions #insisting #making #mistake #monopoly

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

#communication #define #elite #formula #may

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. ↗

— Steven Wright

#game #i #i think #makes #monopoly

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#because #class #corn #every #existing

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

#backward #company #easy #forests #fur