Books Quote by Alexandra Elbakyan

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in…

— Robert Darnton

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully…

— David Axelrod

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

— Clay Shirky

We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging…

— Dean Spade

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general…

— Anonymous

People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then…

— Kalle Lasn

I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as…

— Oliver Harris

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand…

— Calvin Coolidge

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

— Isaac Asimov

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

— Robert Waterman McChesney

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's…

— Aaron Swartz

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

— Jenny Hval