Richard Stallman Quotes

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization;

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.