Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — 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
'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
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
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 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
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
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
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — 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
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
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
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — 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
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
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 political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — 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
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
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — 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
