Liberty Quotes by Emma Goldman

There's never been a good government.

— Emma Goldman

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

— Emma Goldman

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

— Emma Goldman

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

— 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

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...…

— Emma Goldman

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

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong…

— Emma Goldman

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

... woman's narrow and puristattitude toward life makes hera greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overcome…

— Emma Goldman

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right…

— Emma Goldman

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that…

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is…

— 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

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort…

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however,…

— Emma Goldman