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Lawrence Lessig

"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

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"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."

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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

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"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."

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"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

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"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"

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Lawrence Lessig
"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device."

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Lawrence Lessig
"If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit."

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

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Lawrence Lessig
"Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders."

Society

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Lawrence Lessig
"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt."

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Lawrence Lessig
"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying."

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Lawrence Lessig
"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result."

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Lawrence Lessig
"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place."

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"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible."

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Lawrence Lessig
"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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