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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 9

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It is characteristic of theistic tolerance that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

Believe, People, Tolerance

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

The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.

Children, Philosophy, Men

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

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Energy, Criminals, Crime

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

Body, Waste, Week

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

Law, Ideas, Growth

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

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

Land, Vision, World

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

Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

Struggle, Suffering, Vision

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

Giving, Demand, Path

Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

Inspired, Authority, Persecution

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

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

Jealousy, Poor, Mediums

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

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Love, Dream, Men

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.10, The Floating Press

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

Needs, Protection

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.67, PM Press

Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

Struggle, Mean, Men

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.

Grateful, Years, People

"Arrest in Chicago of Emma Goldman, Preacher of Anarchy". "The San Francisco call" Newspaper, September 11, 1901.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

Mirrors, Government, Soul

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

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

Trifles, Confronting

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

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Law, Ideas, Chariots

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

Religious, Men, Silence

Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Mean, Libertarian, Method

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Mean, Men, Acquisition

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

Understand one another.

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

Men, Iron, Heaven

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

Beautiful, Self, Expression

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

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Delight, Mass, Bravo

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

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

Powerful, Drama, Heart

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.151, 谷月社

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