#rope

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

— Lawrence Lessig

#been #comes #intellectual #intellectual property #perfect

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

#accept #control #culture #democratically #develop

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#directing #herring #i #just #might

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#differentiate #expert #felt #formulated #hardly

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ↗

— Jack London

#exist #function #i #live #man

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#confidently #curiosity #detected #ere #european

Our private property must be sacrificed. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#our #private #private property #property #sacrificed

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. ↗

— James Madison

#acquired #gives #natural #natural right #personal