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Top 180 Emma Goldman Quotes (2024 Update)

Emma Goldman Quote: “Politicians promise you heaven before an election and give you hell after.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Life without an ideal is spiritual death.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Patriotism is a menace to liberty.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I don’t care if a man’s theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to Liberty.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I believe – indeed, I know – that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “What I believe is a process rather than a finality.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man’s enslavement and all the horrors it entails.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “When we can’t dream any longer we die.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.”
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