Freedom Quotes

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"I would rather be a free person with limitations than a rich person in chains."
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"Privacy is not about secrecy. It's about freedom."
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"Software should be free for everyone to use, study, and modify."
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"Surveillance is the business model of the internet."
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"Free software respects your freedom and community."
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"Code is speech, and speech must be free."
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"Freedom is not gratis; it's about liberty."
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"I am against intellectual property; I believe in intellectual freedom."
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"The most important part of an operating system is freedom."
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"Collaboration is only possible when everyone has the source code."
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"I decided long ago that I would not let anyone own my labor."
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"Restrictions on software are restrictions on human freedom."
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"The hacker ethic is about freedom and community, not money."
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"I write code because I believe in freedom."
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"The goal of the GNU project is to provide complete software freedom."
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"A truly free person is one who has control over their own computer."
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"I believe that ethically, software should be free."
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"The fight for free software is the fight for freedom itself."
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"Free software is prerequisite for a free society."
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"Your computer should obey you, not the other way around."
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"Copyleft is a strategy of using copyright law to achieve freedom."
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"The GNU manifesto is a call to arms for software freedom."
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"I have spent my life fighting for the freedom to program."
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"The internet was built on the principle of open sharing and collaboration."
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"Software freedom is human freedom."
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"I program for freedom, not fortune."
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"The GNU project proves that large software systems can be created freely."
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"A restriction on copying is a restriction on freedom."
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"I would rather defend the freedom of 1000 guilty programmers than restrict one innocent one."
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"The most important freedom is the freedom to learn."
Richard Stallman