Government Quotes by Emma Goldman

There's never been a good government.

— Emma Goldman

... the keynote of government is injustice.

— Emma Goldman

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

— Emma Goldman

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

— Emma Goldman

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

— Emma Goldman

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

— Emma Goldman

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

— Emma Goldman

The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,…

— Emma Goldman

ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest…

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

— Emma Goldman

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the…

— Emma Goldman

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or…

— Emma Goldman

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically…

— Emma Goldman

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite…

— Emma Goldman

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In…

— Emma Goldman

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

The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on…

— Emma Goldman

“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself…

— Emma Goldman

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that…

— Emma Goldman