Law Quotes by Emma Goldman

16 Law quotes by Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s sixteen remarks on law crack open the constraints she saw in institutional authority. The selection is unapologetically direct, offering a fierce challenge to conventional legal thought.

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

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After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

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The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter…

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Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is…

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

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The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,…

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statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do…

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Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual…

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Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human…

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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national…

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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State…

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Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome…

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

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The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will…

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Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or…

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…

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“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

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Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

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Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The…

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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…

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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…

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

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