A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to prod...uce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores publi...c opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them t...o think truly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the ...corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Half the intellectual resources of the race on this continent, made half a freedom: it will take the feminine remainder--the other... half of the intellectual resources--the heart-half!--to make our freedom entire and beautiful. Civil liberty now is a monopoly. It belongs to one sex, though it was secured by the blood and prayer and toil of generations of both sexes. Now its blessings are sexual! It is for John and Peter, not Mary and Deborah. But it will not be always so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring th...e 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in th...e end find that ... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anyth...ing in the way of art.... What did they do but illustrate a page or so of the New Testament! They themselves think they have a monopoly in the line. I am dead tired of their bello and bellezza.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »