Emma Goldman quotes

When we can't dream any longer we die. (Emma Goldman)
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
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
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
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
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)
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
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
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman
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
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
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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The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Emma Goldman
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. (Emma Goldman)
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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Free love? As if love is anything but free!
Emma Goldman
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman