Mass Quotes by Emma Goldman

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the…

— Emma Goldman

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

— Emma Goldman

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through…

— Emma Goldman

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

— 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

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth…

— 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 majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed…

— Emma Goldman

So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual…

— Emma Goldman

The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among…

— 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

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

— Emma Goldman

If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit,…

— Emma Goldman