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Human Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
- There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
- 'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
- 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…
- Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our…
- The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it…
- The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the…
- Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It…
- The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only…
- The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
- Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
- Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people…
- The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human…
- In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to…
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong