In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment. — Emma Goldman Copy Share
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that… — 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
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — 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 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
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
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 upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
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 ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence… — Emma Goldman Copy Share
