Explore Quotes by John Perry Barlow

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.