Crime Quotes by Emma Goldman

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

— Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

— Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Emma Goldman

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

— Emma Goldman

It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom

— Emma Goldman

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

— Emma Goldman

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in…

— Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly…

— Emma Goldman

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized…

— Emma Goldman

In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice…

— Emma Goldman

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State…

— Emma Goldman

“There is close relation, says Havelock Ellis, between crimes against the person and the price of alcohol, between crimes against property and…

— Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human…

— Emma Goldman

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson…

— Emma Goldman

“is a fact known to almost everyone familiar with the Anarchist movement that a great number of acts, for which Anarchists had…

— Emma Goldman