Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 7

All Quotes Anarchy Army Arrogance Art Atheism Atheist Authority Capitalism Character Children Christianity Country Crime Democracy Earth Education Effort Energy Evil Fighting Giving Growth Harmony Hate Heart Heaven Home Honesty Humanity Husband Ignorance Independence Injustice Inspirational Integrity Jealousy Joy Justice Liberty Life Love Lying Marriage Military Pain Patriotism Peace Persecution Personality Philosophy Politics Purpose Quality Reality Responsibility Revolution Sacrifice Slavery Social Change Soul Struggle Today Training Understanding Violence Vision War Weakness Wealth

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

Philosophy, Views, Political

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

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

Quality, Doe, Kind

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.59, PM Press

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

Military, Class, America

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

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

Real, Men, Color

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

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

Exercise, Men, Shoes

Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

Expression, Broken, Slavery

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

Blessed, Hands, Dear Ones

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.164, Library of Alexandria

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Mind, Anarchy, Dominion

'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

Atheist, Believe, Hypocrite

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Baby, Color, People

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.41, PM Press

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Mean, Men, Depth

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

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

Training, Atheism, Christianity

Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

Ignorance, Mean, Earth

Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.207, Courier Corporation

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Mom, Mother, Criminals

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.98, PM Press

With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

Mean, Political, Needs

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

Tunes, Revolution, Inspired

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

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

Heart, People, Growth

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.95, PM Press

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Giving, Demand, Sacred

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

Government, Order, Law

Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

Men, Understanding, Looks

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Moving, Ideas, Effort

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Integrity, Majority, Care

"Anarchism: Top Crime Collections".

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

Mean, Law, Parent

"My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Marriage, Girl, Average

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Sex, Men, Aquariums

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

You May Also Like: