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From Quotes by Emma Goldman
- There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
- 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…
- John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when…
- The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the…
- Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.
- Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,…
- Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in…
- Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces…
- Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if…
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for…
- The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
- Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
- Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;…
- 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…
- I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
- 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…
- What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present…
- The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads,…
- Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
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