Richard Stallman Quotes

In the future, 'the networked' will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

It’s the people verses the special interests and I’m going to fight this out till the end.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the world to them; following their own corporate interest.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.