--- title: "4 Denial Quotes By Emma Goldman" description: "4 Denial quotes by Emma Goldman. Plus more from Emma Goldman and more Denial sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/emma-goldman-774_atheism_christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodim_974660.png" --- > [Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodiment-of-submission-of-inertia/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/emma-goldman-774_atheism_christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodim_974660.png) > [The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-fathers-of-the-church-can-well-afford-to-preach-the-gospel-of/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/840/emma-goldman-774_abnegation_the-fathers-of-the-church-can-well-affor_1830394.jpg) > [I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/i-did-not-believe-that-a-cause-which-stood-for-a-beautiful-ideal-for/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3f/emma-goldman-774_anarchism_i-did-not-believe-that-a-cause-which-sto_2417864.png) > [The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-christian-religion-and-morality-extols-the-glory-of-the-hereafter/) [Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/emma-goldman-774_christian_the-christian-religion-and-morality-exto_2571810.jpg) ## Other authors on Denial - [Shannon L. Alder 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/shannon-l-alder/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/craig-d-lounsbrough/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-heinemeier-hansson-27552.jpg) Michael Salter 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/michael-salter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eve-ensler-34301.jpg) Eve Ensler 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/eve-ensler/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-bradshaw-51026.jpg) John Bradshaw 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/john-bradshaw/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brandon-steiner-19212.jpg) Graciela Chichilnisky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/graciela-chichilnisky/) - [Colin A. Ross 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/colin-a-ross/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-palahniuk-24118.jpg) Chuck Palahniuk 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/chuck-palahniuk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-bradlaugh-22157.jpg) Charles Bradlaugh 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/charles-bradlaugh/) - [Carolyn Spring 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/denial/carolyn-spring/) ## 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/denial/emma-goldman/#itemlist", "name": "4 Denial Quotes By Emma Goldman", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Emma Goldman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodiment-of-submission-of-inertia/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/emma-goldman-774_atheism_christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodim_974660.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/emma-goldman-774_atheism_christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodim_974660.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/emma-goldman-774_atheism_christ-and-his-teachings-are-the-embodim_974660.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence…” — Emma Goldman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. 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