A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
Context: You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
VII, 73.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Original
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
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Martial 31
Latin poet from Hispania 40–104Related quotes
Campaign speech in Chicago (6 April 1912)
1910s
“That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.”
The Building of the City Beautiful (1905), Ch. V : How Beautiful!, p. 48.
Context: p>Each gives to each, and like the star
Gets back its gift in tenfold pay.To get and give and give amain
The rivers run and oceans roll.
O generous and high-born rain
When reigning as a splendid whole!
That man who lives for self alone
Lives for the meanest mortal known.</p
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons. Jojen
No. 191 (9 October 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
A speech at the Siemens Dynamo Works in Berlin (10 November 1933) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/hitler_audio.shtml
1930s
“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.
The Shortcut: 20 Stories To Get You From Here To There (2006) by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179