Money Corrupts The Process Of Reasoning.

While Control Is Needed, And Perfectly Warranted, Our Bias Should Be Clear Up Front: Monopolies Are Not Justified By Theory; They Should Be Permitted Only When Justified By Facts. If There Is No Solid Basis For Extending A Certain Monopoly Protection, Then We Should Not Extend That Protection.

There's No Reason For The Electors To Overrule The Popular Choice.

In These Times, The Hardest Task For Social Or Political Activists Is To Find A Way To Get People To Wonder Again About What We All Believe Is True. The Challenge Is To Sow Doubt.

A Free Culture Is Not A Culture Without Property; It Is Not A Culture In Which Artists Don't Get Paid. A Culture Without Property, Or In Which Creators Can't Get Paid, Is Anarchy, Not Freedom. Anarchy Is Not What I Advance Here. Instead, The Free Culture That I Defend In This Book Is A Balance Between Anarchy And Control.

As More And More Citizens Express What They Think, And Defend It In Writing, That Will Change The Way People Understand Public Issues. It Is Easy To Be Wrong And Misguided In Your Head. It Is Harder When The Product Of Your Mind Can Be Criticized By Others. Of Course, It Is A Rare Human Who Admits That He Has Been Persuaded That He Is Wrong. But It Is Even Rarer For A Human To Ignore When He Has Been Proven Wrong. The Writing Of Ideas, Arguments, And Criticism Improves Democracy.