Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 6

Quotes about:

• 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 to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

  Emma Goldman

  Integrity, Lying, Believe

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

  9 Copy quote

• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotism, Training, Principles

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

  8 Copy quote

• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

  10 Copy quote

• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

  Emma Goldman

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

  5 Copy quote

• Love is it's own protection.

  Emma Goldman

  Love Is, Protection

  11 Copy quote

• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

  4 Copy quote

• Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

  Emma Goldman

  Race, Years, Agony

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

  4 Copy quote

• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

  27 Copy quote

• 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 are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

  12 Copy quote

• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

  4 Copy quote

• Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

  Emma Goldman

  Bigs, Broads, Breadth

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.150, Sheba Blake Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements

  Emma Goldman

  Class, Ideas, Political

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

  4 Copy quote

• Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

  Emma Goldman

  Mind, Anarchy, Dominion

  'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

  23 Copy quote

• Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Ideas, Effort

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

  9 Copy quote

• We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

  Emma Goldman

  Doors, Citizens, Rooms

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.583, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy 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

  Feminism, Being Free, Desire

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.180, Univ of California Press

  34 Copy quote

• The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

  Emma Goldman

  Peace, Expression, People

  Emma Goldman (2013). “Living My Life”, p.210, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

• The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Mind, Atheism

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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 channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, Law, Long

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

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

  5 Copy quote

• The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

  Emma Goldman

  Teacher, Average, Parent

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

  4 Copy quote

• Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

  5 Copy quote

Page 6 of 12

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin