"Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property."

-- Lawrence Lessig

#Views Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”
“If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.”
“What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.”
“Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.”
“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.”
“Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.”
“Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.”
“Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.”

Source : Raymond Aron (1957). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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