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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 4

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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.

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.

Law, Ideas, Wheels

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

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Sex, Men, Two

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

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

Violence, Individual, Bottom

"Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader".

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Life, Valentines Day, Nature

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Thinking, Machines, Development

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.86, BookRix

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Criminals, Deserve

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.65, 谷月社

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.

Race, Years, Agony

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

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

World, Politics, Politician

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

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Vote, No Hope, Right To Vote

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.121, 谷月社

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

Jail, May, Silent

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

Thinking, Circles, Two

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Giving, Force, Ifs

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

Hysteria, Giving, Political

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.102, PM Press

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

Doors, Citizens, Rooms

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.583, Univ of California Press

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Nature, Names, Crime

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Atheism, Needs, Mouths

Emma Goldman (1971). “The traffic in women and other essays on feminism”, Times Change Pr

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Gun, People, Clubs

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

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

Kings, Government, Self

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Strong, Sex, Character

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

Scandal, Craving

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.137, Sheba Blake Publishing

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

Men, Mind, Needs

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Men, Direct Action, America

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Doe, Body, Facts

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Love, Inspirational, Dream

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

Christian, Pain, Self

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

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