Economic Quotes by Emma Goldman

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

— Emma Goldman

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

— Emma Goldman

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through…

— Emma Goldman

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is…

— Emma Goldman

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

— Emma Goldman

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

— Emma Goldman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort…

— Emma Goldman

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual…

— 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

“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

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that…

— Emma Goldman

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the…

— Emma Goldman

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is…

— Emma Goldman

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will…

— Emma Goldman