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
“Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the individual, his possibilities and needs in a free society. Instead of telling him that he… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority. Only in freedom can… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“ Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have… — 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
“Religion robs the soul of its independence; patriotism is the stupid worship of the world for which the well-being and the peace… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. — 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