A Quote by Lawrence Lessig
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
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Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.
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I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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