top of page
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow

"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."

Standard 
 Customized
"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Explore more quotes by John Perry Barlow

Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone."
Quote_1.png
John Perry Barlow
"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
bottom of page