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Political Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon
- Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing -…
- Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced…
- Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
- Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.
- It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question…
- Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
- While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under…
- As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle