Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual… — 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… — 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
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Anarchism rouses man to rebellion against this black monster. Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think… — 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
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire. — 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
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