Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.” — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor… It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
