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• With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

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  Mean, Political, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Heart, People, Growth

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.95, PM Press

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• A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

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  Integrity, Majority, Care

  "Anarchism: Top Crime Collections".

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

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  Delight, Mass, Bravo

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

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  Mean, Law, Parent

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

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• From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

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  Marriage, Girl, Average

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

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  Determination, Intelligent, Reality

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.43, 谷月社

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

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  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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  Inferiority, Economic, Social

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

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  War, Men, Voice

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

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• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

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  Ideas, Needs, Psychological

  "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

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• Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

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  Soul, Humanity, Atheism

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

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• Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.

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  Mean, Majority, Coercion

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.42, 谷月社

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• ... the keynote of government is injustice.

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  Government, Anarchy, Injustice

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.31, 谷月社

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• When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

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  Lying, Patriotic, Brotherhood

  "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

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• Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

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  Moving, Expression, Law

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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  Fighting, Humanity, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

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  Law, Made

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

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  Elements, Revenue, Militarism

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (1917). “Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917”

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• Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

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  Philosophy, Men, Promise

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

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  Character, Ideas, Intellectual

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

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• Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

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  Heaven, Dull, Spirit

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• 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.

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  Life, Education, Children

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

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  Peace, War, Fighting

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