Emma Goldman Quotes

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• Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose,…
• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling…
• ...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
• The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"…
• There's never been a good government.
• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
• You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into…
• The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful…
• The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
• Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.
• The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is…
• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
• It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the…
• ... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a…
• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former…
• The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display.
• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the…

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