Political Quotes by Emma Goldman

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is…

— Emma Goldman

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

— Emma Goldman

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

— Emma Goldman

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

— Emma Goldman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort…

— Emma Goldman

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by…

— Emma Goldman

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of…

— Emma Goldman

In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the…

— Emma Goldman

With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should…

— Emma Goldman

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized…

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or…

— Emma Goldman

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will…

— Emma Goldman

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is…

— Emma Goldman

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social…

— Emma Goldman

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the…

— Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human…

— Emma Goldman