"So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically."

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Source : Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

Lawrence Lessig

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”
“When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms, the whole world just fades away. The only thing I hear is the beating of your heart.”

Source : Song: Breathe
“Vision is a mental picture of what could be, fueled by a passion that it should be.”
“The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.”
“I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.”
“The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.221
“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”
“And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.”

Source : "Praeger Handbook on Understanding and Preventing Workplace Discrimination". Book edited by Michele A. Paludi,‎ Eros R. DeSouza and‎ Carmen A. Paludi, Jr., 2010.

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