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• What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Machines, Development

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.86, BookRix

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• More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

  Emma Goldman

  Class, Majority, Dictator

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Every society has the criminals it deserves.

  Emma Goldman

  Criminals, Deserve

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.65, 谷月社

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• 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

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• I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Care, Today

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• Revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Revolution, Action, Social Change

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria

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• Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

  Emma Goldman

  Violence, Individual, Bottom

  "Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader".

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• I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

  Emma Goldman

  Jail, May, Silent

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

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• The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

  Emma Goldman

  Hysteria, Giving, Political

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.102, PM Press

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

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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

  Emma Goldman

  Atheism, Needs, Mouths

  Emma Goldman (1971). “The traffic in women and other essays on feminism”, Times Change Pr

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• 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, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Fashion, Pain

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• ...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Militarism, Capitalism

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

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• 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 PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

  Emma Goldman

  World, Politics, Politician

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Block, Men

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• 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 maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Order, Law

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• I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

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  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

  Emma Goldman

  Individual, Social, Authority

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

  Emma Goldman

  Direct Action, Logical, Method

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Two

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• When we can't dream any longer we die.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

  Emma Goldman

  Doe, Body, Facts

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Poor, Mediums

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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