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One 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…
- In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is…
- A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but…
- Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his…
- Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
- Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay…
- In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds…
- No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the…
- The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working…
- No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true…
- Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
- On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will…
- One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
- The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
- 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…
- Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity…
- Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am 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…
- Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop…
- Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an…
- 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,…
- The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle