Freedom Past Activist Politics. Democracy Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. - Lawrence Lessig
Past Change Right Now Will A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. - Lawrence Lessig
Fact Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. - Lawrence Lessig
People In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. - Lawrence Lessig
Change The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. - Lawrence Lessig
Famous 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. - Lawrence Lessig
Consequences All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. - Lawrence Lessig
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. - Emile M. Cioran
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. - Lord Acton
It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. - Malcolm Wallop
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. - Benjamin Tucker