"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn"
- Richard Stallman
About this Quote
This quote by Richard Stallman is a tip of the importance of flexibility and the consequences of not valuing it. History has taught us that if we do not value our freedom, we will eventually lose it. This quote also highlights the attitude of those who do not wish to learn from history and instead choose to neglect it. They react to cautions about the value of flexibility with a dismissive mindset, informing people not to trouble them with politics. This attitude threatens, as it overlooks the lessons of history and puts liberty at risk. It is necessary to bear in mind that freedom is not something to be considered given, and that we should value it in order to safeguard it.
This quote is written / told by Richard Stallman somewhere between March 16, 1953 and today. He/she was a famous Scientist.
The author also have 14 other quotes.
"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us"
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom"
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"
