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Emma Goldman calls patriotism a justification for murder and says religion, property, and government dominate human life. She argues that anarchism awakens a person’s own consciousness and that gods were born from fear and curiosity. Her quotes paint a stark picture of power that limits growth.

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... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

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I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea…

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If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the…

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Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since…

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The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does…

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The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink…

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The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the…

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Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has…

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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a…

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Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be…

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Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of…

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Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument…

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Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages…

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What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most…

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statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do…

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The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,…

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The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing…

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Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism…

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The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race…

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'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a…

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Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that…

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Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of…

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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is…

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

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No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and…

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I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working…

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Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet…

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

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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as,…

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true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and…

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Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out…

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Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a…

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Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the…

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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice…

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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are…

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When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them…

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The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,…

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ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest…

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Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all…

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…

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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have…

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.…

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

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