Ilana Mercer South African writer
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“I believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of "intellectual property."”
— Lawrence Lessig, book Free Culture
Introduction
Free Culture (2004)
Context: I believe it would be right for common sense to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of "intellectual property." What the law demands today is increasingly as silly as a sheriff arresting an airplane for trespass. But the consequences of this silliness will be much more profound.
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Free Culture (2004)
Context: A simple idea blinds us, and under the cover of darkness, much happens that most of us would reject if any of us looked. So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in ideas that we don't even notice how monstrous it is to deny ideas to a people who are dying without them. 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. Blindness becomes our common sense. And the challenge for anyone who would reclaim the right to cultivate our culture is to find a way to make this common sense open its eyes.
So far, common sense sleeps. There is no revolt. Common sense does not yet see what there could be to revolt about.
Joseph E. Stiglitz book Making Globalization Work
§4.2 TRIPs, p. 117
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“Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
No. 1
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
Mark Getty (1960) British businessman
"Blood and Oil," The Economist (March 4, 2000), p. 68
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
"James Clarence Mangan" (1902) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/382/MANGAN1, a lecture on Mangan delivered at the Literary and Historical Society, University College, Dublin (1 February 1902) and printed in the college magazine St. Stephen's <br class="br">Context: Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.
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Source: Social Justice in Islam (1953), p. 132
Ambrose (339–397) bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Church
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Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty’s against all common Sense.”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
ll. 158-159.
A Satire Against Mankind (1679)