Richard Stallman

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

— Richard Stallman

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

— Richard Stallman

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

— Richard Stallman

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,

— Richard Stallman

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it…

— Richard Stallman

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use…

— Richard Stallman

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

— Richard Stallman

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do…

— Richard Stallman

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses…

— Richard Stallman

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I…

— Richard Stallman

Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of…

— Richard Stallman

Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is,…

— Richard Stallman

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede…

— Richard Stallman

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.…

— Richard Stallman

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that…

— Richard Stallman

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the…

— Richard Stallman

Talking about freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as convenience, is asking people to think about things they might prefer…

— Richard Stallman

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in…

— Richard Stallman

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing…

— Richard Stallman

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be…

— Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— Richard Stallman

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a…

— Richard Stallman

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

— Richard Stallman

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

— Richard Stallman

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

— Richard Stallman

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

— Richard Stallman

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

— Richard Stallman

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

— Richard Stallman

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the…

— Richard Stallman

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'…

— Richard Stallman

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

— Richard Stallman

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

— Richard Stallman

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

— Richard Stallman

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

— Richard Stallman

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

— Richard Stallman

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel…

— Richard Stallman

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

— Richard Stallman