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statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented

statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.

Men, Law, Regulation

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.341, Univ of California Press

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.

Glasses, Sight, Broken

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.108, 谷月社

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

Sex, Men, Merit

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.

Spiritual, Mean, Class

Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Marriage, Husband, Self

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.

Sex, Self, Oneness

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Marriage, Motto, Inferno

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.4, The Floating Press

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

Country, Silly, Men

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

Past, Average, Law

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

Children, Army, People

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

War, America, Democracy

Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

Elements, Revenue, Militarism

Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (1917). “Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917”

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.

Men, Thinking, World

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.80, 谷月社

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

Country, War, Government

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.75, 谷月社

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

People, Needs, Movement

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.117, 谷月社

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

Beautiful, Believe, Joy

Living My Life ch. 5 (1931).

A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

Sex, Self, Order

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

Kings, Army, Men

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.179, Library of Alexandria

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

Ignorance, Humanity, Atheism

Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

Attitude, Men, Political

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.55, PM Press

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

Love, Crush, Passion

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.369, University of Illinois Press

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Government, Goes On, Method

Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

Country, Song, Men

Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Mother, Honesty, Liberty

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Love, Mother, Song

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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