Commons Quote by Eric von Hippel

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they…

— Noam Chomsky

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre…

— Robert Harris

It takes a lot to silence the House of Commons.

— Lindsay Hoyle

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with…

— Claire Tomalin

“Google and Apple offer the image of a pseudo-commons to Internet users. That image recalls Nick Dyer-Whiteford's claim that, in light of the structural…

— Sumanth Gopinath

“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common by the…

— Peter Vallentyne

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than…

— Guy Standing

“To say it's the poor quality of the paint under socialism is correct, but it is not enough. To say it's soft-coal exploitation and…

— Slavenka Drakulić

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I…

— Ben Elliot

“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas…

— Sanford Berman

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting…

— Diane Abbott

Kris Commons and Scott Brown are key players for Celtic.

— Frank de Boer