Emma Goldman Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

• The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Army, Peaceful

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, America, Joy

• Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.

  Emma Goldman

  Kings, Army, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.179, Library of Alexandria

• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

• True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, Men, Force

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.381, University of Illinois Press

• The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Army, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Army, Soldier

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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