Lawrence Lessig

“We need to recognize that the freedom to create is not just for the professional. It's for the amateur, too.”

“The problem is not that people are polarized. The problem is that the system is.”

“Copyright has become a tool of censorship.”

“The opposite of a free culture is a permission culture.”

“We are the first generation in the history of mankind to have the tools to build a truly free society.”

“In a world where the culture is shared, the tax on that culture is that you're going to get remixes.”

“Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.”

“A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. It is a culture in which creativity is free.”

“We have a government that is corrupt. It is a government that is responsive to the funders, and not the people.”

“The current system of regulation is not protecting innovation, it is stifling it.”

“What the framers gave us was not a democracy, but a republic.”

“A law that can be directed against speech is a law that will be.”

“Our democracy is a pathetic joke.”

“The power to create is the power to participate.”

“We have built a system that is rigged. It is rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many.”