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Crime Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
- In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to…
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless…
- It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice,…
- Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
- The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
- Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong…
- The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and…
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