Richard Stallman Quotes

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. But it takes religion to make good people do bad things.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The world is opening up. We all learn what is happening elsewhere. … The individual is fast becoming aware of his or her rights.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

This [the advent of radio] was the first time in the history of mankind that people in different places heard the same thing at the same time.

Sometimes you have to do bad things to get into power so you can do good things when you get there.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

There will be times when I mess up. I'm human, but I want to be a role model for the good things I do and the bad things I do. And the times I do make mistakes, learn from those mistakes.