"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
-John Perry Barlow
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"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.“
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"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
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"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."
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"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
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"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."
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"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."
-John Perry Barlow
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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