Peace Quotes by Emma Goldman

17 Peace quotes by Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman’s 17 statements on peace intertwine her fierce advocacy with a longing for societal calm. The excerpts reveal how she balanced revolutionary zeal with the hope for a more harmonious future.

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so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

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

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Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

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Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it…

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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of…

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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that…

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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…

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readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

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“True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while…

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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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You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the…

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Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it…

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“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that…

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“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it…

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“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is…

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

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“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of…

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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.

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

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

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

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

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