Mr Barlow Quotes

#1. Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,

Maude Barlow

#2. I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

John Perry Barlow

#3. The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.

Toby Barlow

#4. Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

John Perry Barlow

#5. The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

John Perry Barlow

#6. Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

John Perry Barlow

#7. We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

Maude Barlow

#8. I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

Gary Barlow

#9. Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety in its severe forms.

David Barlow

#10. Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed,

Christopher Hitchens

#11. But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

John Perry Barlow

#12. The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

Gary Barlow

#13. How anybody in town could think me a murderer when I couldn't even throw a stray out into the rain, I cannot fathom.

Linda Barlow

#14. You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

Toby Barlow

#15. I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.

John Barlow

#16. Monkeys
What! His partner said.
Monkeys are funny, said Peabody.'So why didn't we we pick monkeys.
His partner sighed and shook his head with sad dismay.
Monkeys? Jesus.
Monkeys' idea of fun is throwing their shit at you. Monkeys always take the joke a step too far.

Toby Barlow

#17. Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

John Perry Barlow

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

John Perry Barlow

#19. We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

John Perry Barlow

#20. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

Maude Barlow

#21. Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander ... It's just an extension of humanity.

John Perry Barlow

#22. Music, Take That and what we do is not real life. It's magical.
As soon as you begin to believe it the magic will disappear.

Gary Barlow

#23. The stratosphere is my church.

John Perry Barlow

#24. It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

Joel Barlow

#25. You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

Scott Westerfeld

#26. I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

Gary Barlow

#27. Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

John Perry Barlow

#28. We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

Gary Barlow

#29. That's what makes it so right. Your eyes - your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.

Bree Despain

#30. friends, and, of course," - he glanced toward their sleeping daughter - "the love of a father and mother for their child. All these taken together, with all the joy and pain that they confer - that can save us, surely. Love of life, Alix. You have it. And since I've found you, so do I.

Linda Barlow

#31. Look for magic in the daily routine.

Lou Barlow

#32. It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

John Perry Barlow