[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — 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
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — 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