Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.