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A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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

— Lawrence Lessig

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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

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property. ↗

— Kate Millett

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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you. ↗

— Kate Millett

#away #government #how #husband #kind

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property. ↗

— John H. Morgan

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. ↗

— Max Nordau

#before #built #citizens #civilization #crimes

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job. ↗

— Barack Obama

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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. ↗

— Barack Obama

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