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Social Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
- It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
- Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
- 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…
- Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our…
- 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…
- The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more…
- Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our…
- Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
- Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make…
- 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…
- 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 average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
- Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him…
- 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…
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
- One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
- 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…
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for…
- 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…
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