--- title: "5 Committed Quotes By Emma Goldman" description: "5 Committed quotes by Emma Goldman. Plus more from Emma Goldman and more Committed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/emma-goldman-774_committed_poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-h_19875.png" --- > [Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-have-been-committed-in-thy/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/emma-goldman-774_committed_poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-h_19875.png) > [Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-have-been-committed-in-thy-name/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/emma-goldman-774_anarchism_poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-h_286909.png) > [The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-burden-of-all-song-and-praise-unto-the-highest-has-been-that-god/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5c/emma-goldman-774_betrayed_the-burden-of-all-song-and-praise-unto-t_428175.jpg) > [The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-custom-of-procuring-abortions-has-reached-such-appalling/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/emma-goldman-774_abortion_the-custom-of-procuring-abortions-has-re_2106191.jpg) > [Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-have-been-committed-in-thy-2/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/828/emma-goldman-774_anarchy_poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-h_2170831.png) ## Other authors on Committed ## More by Emma Goldman > [Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-have-been-committed-in-thy/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/do-not-all-theists-insist-that-there-can-be-no-morality-no-justice/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/lack-of-fairness-to-an-opponent-is-essentially-a-sign-of-weakness/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/do-not-all-theists-insist-that-there-can-be-no-morality-no-justice-2/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/only-when-human-sorrows-are-turned-into-a-toy-with-glaring-colors/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/more-pernicious-than-the-power-of-a-dictator-is-that-of-a-class-the/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/love-the-strongest-and-deepest-element-in-all-life-the-harbinger-of/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/whether-our-reformers-admit-it-or-not-the-economic-and-social/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-free-expression-of-the-hopes-and-aspirations-of-a-people-is-the/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/someone-has-said-that-it-requires-less-mental-effort-to-condemn-than/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-persecution-of-the-innovator-and-protestant-has-always-been/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/order-derived-through-submission-and-maintained-by-terror-is-not-much/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/today-is-the-parent-of-tomorrow-the-present-casts-its-shadow-far-into/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/salvation-lies-in-an-energetic-march-onward-towards-a-brighter-and/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) > [The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-more-hideous-the-mental-contortions-the-greater-the-delight-and/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/committed/emma-goldman/#itemlist", "name": "5 Committed Quotes By Emma Goldman", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! 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