Emma Goldman Quotes

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safegua...

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

On coming to America I had the same hopes as have most European immigrants and the same disillusionm...

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any s...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all ...

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assum...

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by for...

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

When we can't dream any longer we die.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marri...

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the ...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bo...

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach...

When we can't dream any longer we die.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and f...

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vit...

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of y...

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but...

I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the...

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Reg...

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, the...

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor huma...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the worl...

Love is it's own protection.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...