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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 3

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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Independent, Independence, Sin

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Patriotism, Liberty, Menace

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Individual, Social, Authority

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

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

Would Be, Election, Changed

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

Weakness, Opponents, Fairness

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.689, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Beautiful, Believe, Government

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.341, University of Illinois Press

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.

Men, People, Rebel

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.450, University of Illinois Press

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

War, Home, Independent

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

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.

Men, Blood, Soul

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.78, University of Illinois Press

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

Future, Chaos, Harmony

"Free speech, war: Berkeley beat goes on" by Roderick Nordell, www.csmonitor.com. January 16, 2003.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

Government

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding

If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

Pride, Men, Numbers

Emma Goldman (2012). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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.

Military, Army, Soldier

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

Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

Struggle, Men, Evil

"The Failure of Christianity". "Mother Earth" Journal, April 1913.

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.

Army, America, Joy

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.

Change, Men, Diversity

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

Military, Militarism, Capitalism

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.381, University of Illinois Press

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

Philosophy, Mean, Men

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

Personality, Mind, Century

There's never been a good government.

Government, Liberty, Libertarian

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Atheist, Jobs, Mistake

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Spiritual, Spiritual Death, Ideals

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Government, People, States

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

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.

Struggle, Civilization, Majority

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

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