Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since… — 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
... 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 history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct. — 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
statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument… — 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
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — 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
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — 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
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave,… — 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
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
