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Government Quotes by Emma Goldman
- There's never been a good government.
- The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
- The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments.…
- 'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
- "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its…
- ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and…
- Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever…
- Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and…
- Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's…
- 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;…
- The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
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