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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 5

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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Lying, Men, Self

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism, Training, Principles

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

People, Understanding, Tragedy

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Revolution, Action, Social Change

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Responsibility, Men, Resistance

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

Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

Real, Law, Direct Action

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

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

Inspirational, Lying, Future

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

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

Hate, People, Joy

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

Oscars, Anarchy, Foolish

Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

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

The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

Wish, Spirit, Danger

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

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

Women, America, Democracy

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Mother, Brother, Children

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.375, University of Illinois Press

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

Responsibility, Birth Control, Demand

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Beautiful, Strong, Real

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

Philosophy, Men, Order

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

Jealousy, Character, Understanding

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.88, PM Press

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

Ignorance, Reality, Men

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

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Triumph, Prostitution, Puritanism

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.74, PM Press

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Feminism, Being Free, Desire

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.180, Univ of California Press

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

Atheist, Philosophy, Real

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

Integrity, Lying, Believe

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

Teacher, Average, Parent

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

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Foundation, Deceit, Revolution

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

The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

Regret, Father, Self

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

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