Birgitta Jonsdottir famous quotes

If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#People #Democracy #Information

People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Real #People #Want

I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next day.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Next Day #Differences #Important

The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Powerful #Party #Believe

Edward Snowden has inspired changes and awareness, which is very important in this day and age, and sometimes egos need to be set aside, even with powerful people, and we need to look at the full picture.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Powerful #People #Ego

We have to modernize how we make laws.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Law

We have to make sure whenever you are dealing with big things like global warming, world security, refugees, the E.U. question, access to information, it needs to be done with an awareness that all of these things interconnect.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Needs #Done #World

In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Party #Impact #Roots

Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Iceland #Gadgets #Freak

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.