Famous quotes containing the words monopoly and/or power:
“United Fruit... United Thieves Company... it’s a monopoly ... if you won’t take their prices they let your limes rot on the wharf; it’s a monopoly. You boys are working for a bunch of thieves, but I know it ain’t your fault.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)