Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through… — 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
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 ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do… — 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
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — 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, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor… It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest… — 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
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — 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… — 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
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
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of… — 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
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
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — 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
