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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 11

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Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my

Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

Letting Go, Eye, Heart

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

Fighting, Men, Ideas

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Life And Death, Understanding, Tolerance

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

Education, Personality, Wish

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Ideas, Personality, Tears

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

Philosophy, Punishment, People

Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Success, Ambition, Mean

Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Mother, Sex, Men

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

What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?

Dream, Stars, Eye

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.427, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Slavery, Moral, Accepted

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.109, 谷月社

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

Country, Freedom, Stupid

Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

Teaching, Names, Atheism

Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.

Eye, Years, People

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.133, Sheba Blake Publishing

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.

Personality, Political, Causes

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Business, Sacrifice, Commodity

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Long, Long Life, Economic

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

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Love, Jealousy, Dope

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

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

Rights, Broken, Feminism

"Anarchism and Other Essays".

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Mean, Liberty, Purpose

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

Ignorance, Men, Primitive Man

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

Marriage, Husband, Children

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Love Is, Atmosphere

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.157, Sheba Blake Publishing

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

People, Realizing, Preparedness

Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

Country, Conflict, All Time

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.565, Cosimo, Inc.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

Strong, Expression, Poison

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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