statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the… — 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
