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Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to

Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.

Emma Goldman
Power, Reality, Thinking
Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.487, Cosimo, Inc.

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

Emma Goldman
Art, Reality, Desire

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

Emma Goldman
Reality, Liberty, Doe
Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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.

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

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

Emma Goldman
Determination, Intelligent, Reality
Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.43, 谷月社

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