Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — 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
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the… — 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
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — 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
