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Emma Goldman Quote: “The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry – the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible – the tyranny of a majority.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “True, the movement for women’s rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values – especially the moral ones – coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Revolution is but thought carried into action.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only ‘order’ that governments have ever maintained.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man’s lot since gods began.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: “Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instance losing its integrity; it has not the vitality and force of a single living man. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Anarchism rouses man to rebellion against this black monster. Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think and judge for yourself will you get rid of the dominion of darkness, the greatest obstacle to all progress.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.”
Emma Goldman Quote: “If society were only relieved of the waste and expense of keeping a lazy class, and the equally great expense of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even the occasional lazy individual.”
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