Famous quotes containing the words monopoly and/or power:
“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 (1828–1906)
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)