Quote: Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: 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 being to liberty and well-being. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! [Emma Goldman]
Quote: The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: 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 produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Crime is naught but misdirected energy. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: 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. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: 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 sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: 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 for individual and social harmony. [Emma Goldman]
Quote: Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. [Emma Goldman]