“Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.”

— Euripidés , Rhesus

Rhesus (c. 435 BC) line 482

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Euripidés 116

ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BC

Charles Perrow (1925–2019) American sociologist

Source: 1960s, "The analysis of goals in complex organizations", 1961, p. 855

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Letter 216, to Florence Barger, 11 February 1922
Selected Letters (1983-1985)

“What is our aim, aim of the people is to eradicate this current government. That happens then the aim is fulfilled or else there is no win.”

Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India

2014, "GhoshanaPatra with Narendra Modi", 2014

“We are brutal with ourselves…., and one of the consequences this could have is that we will be equally brutal and cold with everyone else. Perhaps that's exactly what I've been missing…. A stroke of a sword, a well-aimed bullet must be less than what I feel when I think of being near you.”

Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977) German terrorist

Letter to Baader in The element of madness, July 12, 2009, Perlentaucher Medien GmbH, February 22, 2010 http://www.signandsight.com/features/1964.html,

“The most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not the protection of "property" but the rejection of a tradition. Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. Their aim is to assure that all there is is what is theirs.”

Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture

Free Culture (2004)
Context: The most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not the protection of "property" but the rejection of a tradition. Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. Their aim is to assure that all there is is what is theirs.
It is not hard to understand why the warriors take this view. It is not hard to see why it would benefit them if the competition of the public domain tied to the Internet could somehow be quashed.