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Politics Quotes by Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman calls every form of government a kind of tyranny that controls religion, property, and human behavior. She condemns the state for forcing men to fight in foreign wars and for using soldiers to take lives. She says anarchism tries to free the mind from religious rules, the body from property, and society from government control.

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... the keynote of government is injustice.

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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

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There's never been a good government.

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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

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A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

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'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

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The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

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

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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

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I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite…

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The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically…

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"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In…

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Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from…

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

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The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or…

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Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there…

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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 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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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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Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,…

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“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body…

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“Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: "Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent…

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

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

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

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“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself…

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“Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there…

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

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

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all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

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Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

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

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

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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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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to…

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“That every act of political violence should nowadays be attributed to Anarchists is not at all surprising. Yet it is a fact…

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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…

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The…

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.