To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — 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
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
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
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — 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
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
