Corruption Quote by Lawrence Lessig

“My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).”

Lawrence Lessig

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Corruption Economic Economic issues Economy Effects Influence Issues Moral Moral issues People

More by Lawrence Lessig

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Lawrence Lessig

Image

But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Explore all 137 Lawrence Lessig quotes

More Corruption quotes

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he…

Ashraf Ghani

Image

Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing…

Amity Shlaes

Image

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,…

Anthony Zinni

Image

“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system…

Angelica Hopes

Image

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

Jean de la Bruyere

Image

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of…

Jerome Kerviel

Image

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.…

Atifete Jahjaga