Skip to content

Governments are trying to wrestle, how do you censor without being so heavy-handed that you make people really, you know, can't live their lives.

Another quote →

Topics

Government

More quotes by Noam Cohen

Never before has the boundary between geek culture and mainstream culture been so porous.

Through Google, you can find the horrible things people say about you, and the nice things they say about you. And so I do that regularly to sort of check on it.

America's got a much stronger tradition of free speech and freedom of the press. In Europe, it's much more nuanced and they put a lot of meaning on the rights of your reputation.

From gadgets to social networks to video games, the decision not to embrace the newest technology is a choice to be out of the mainstream.

Playing the government off newspapers, and newspapers against each other, still does not compare with the power of the World Wide Web.

All Noam Cohen quotes →

You may also like

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Noam Cohen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.