Richard Stallman is a saint.

Richard Stallman quotes: <br><br>“The existence of software patents should not change your decision to start a new free program. They will not affect what motivations you have, and they will only increase the value you can give the community if the program is free.” <br><br>“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as complicated as common sense. You need a list. But it is more important to ask yourself whether whatever you are doing will serve all people outside your group and in future generations. What you do must be ethical, to put it that way. And the flow of information and history requires that it be given to the commons, so everyone can have it and improve it.” <br><br>“I could get a law passed tomorrow that said every student gets free access to all software. I could get a law passed saying it was legal to make copies of software people owned and they could give them to their friends. I could get a law passed saying everybody's allowed to decrypt a DVD under certain circumstances. But none of those laws would accomplish the goal that they appear to accomplish. All they would do is force companies into changing their products in ways that would make those provisions useless.” <br><br>“The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become an outlaw (even in the tension between autumn and spring) is that he is able, without the official recognition that he is a rebel to such a degree as he is, to obey his own common man.” <br><br>“I don't believe that 'all's fair in love and war.' Nothing is fair in love and war and nothing's fair for anybody but in business—especially when there's any competition—no one who is married, in love with a girl, or faces a competitor wants 'fairness.'” <br><br>“I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty and that the overthrow of the government is the only means of achieving liberty so we should always aim at my government or less.” <br><br>“We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in freedom: freedom to pitch a tent, to park a van; freedom to watch the sun setting behind a hill watching the stars, or to be squashed on the tube; freedom to protest, to the uniformed 'services, to the 1%, to privilege; freedom to learn, freedom to love. We believe in acting on our beliefs. We do not agree on much else.” <br>Richard Stallman is a saint.