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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 2

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Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

Patriotic, Fighting, Intelligent

"What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

Destiny, Hands, Leader

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.

Love, Stress, Giving

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

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.

Work, Giving, Bread

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Change, Race, Vision

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

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Forgiveness, Independent, Thinking

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Religious, Sacrifice, Political

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Real, Politics, Revolution

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

Real, People, Political

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Patriotic, Arrogance, Patriotism

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

People, Understanding, Tragedy

In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.

Party, Struggle, Character

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.38, 谷月社

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.

Reality, Liberty, Doe

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

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 be loved.

Life, Rights, Justice

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

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Men, Two, Phantoms

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

War, Army, Peaceful

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

Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

Men, Blood, Soul

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Giving, Heaven, Promise

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.

Christian, Powerful, Teaching

"The Failure of Christianity". Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. April 1913.

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

Believe, I Believe, Process

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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.

Art, Atmosphere, Liberty

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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.

Sympathy, Education, Children

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

Men, Care, Today

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Beautiful, Self, Expression

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

Parent, Shadow, Morrow

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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