Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

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.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

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.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

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.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

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.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.