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" I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms. "

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" Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. "

John Perry Barlow

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" I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. "

" The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both. "

" If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. "

" The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy. "

" The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. "

" Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity. "

" The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. "

" In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. "

" The stratosphere is my church. "

John Perry Barlow

Stratosphere

Church

" 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. "

" I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life. "

" But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. "

" Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. "

" I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. "

" But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. "

" 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. "

" I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. "

" The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate. "

" Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. "

" I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. "

" The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. "

" It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. "

John Perry Barlow

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Long

" The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry. "

" Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. "

" Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. "

" So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. "