Cory Doctorow Quotes

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

More and more, we’re willing to give up certain elements of a personal autonomy to gain greater control over others.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

I just don't like being told what to do.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.