The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — 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
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
