The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. — 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
There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically… — 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
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,… — 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
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that… — 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
