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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

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✓Similar Perspectives

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

— Mark Pagel

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

— Lawrence Lessig

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

— Paul Biya

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

— Lee Hall

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

— Sam Brownback

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

— Robert D. Kaplan

It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.

— Melvyn Bragg

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

— Lawrence Lessig

✗Opposing Perspectives

Culture means control over nature.

— Johan Huizinga