Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. — 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
A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display. — 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
Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from… — 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
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
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
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to… — 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
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — 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
“Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: "Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent… — 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
“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“That every act of political violence should nowadays be attributed to Anarchists is not at all surprising. Yet it is a fact… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. — 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
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
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
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
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
