There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
