Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not… — 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… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — 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
... woman's narrow and puristattitude toward life makes hera greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overcome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I discovered that those who want their property to be respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradise and hell,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Yes, I may be considered an enemy of woman; but if I can help her see the light, I shall not complain.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The ignorant mass looks upon the man who makes a violent protest against our social and economic iniquities as upon a wild… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Every stimulus which quickens the imagination and raises the spirits, is as necessary to our life as air. It invigorates the body,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — 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
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual… — 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
