Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at… — 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
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — 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
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty... — 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
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued… — 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
The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — 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