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Emma Goldman [1869-1940] Russian

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Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Change, Politics, Society, Women, Dreams, Education, Equality, Forgiveness, History, Independence, Marriage, Men, Mom, Sad, Sympathy, Valentine's Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.	Valentine's Day	101
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.	Politics	102
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.	Change, Politics	103
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.	History, Men, Women	104
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.	Change	105
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.		106
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.	Education, Sympathy	107
The most violent element in society is ignorance.	Society	108
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.		109
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.		110
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.	Equality	111
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.		112
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?	Mom	113
The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.		114
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.	Women	115
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.		116
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.		117
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.		118
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.	Marriage	119
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.		120
When we can't dream any longer we die.	Dreams	121
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.	Independence, Society	122
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.		123
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.	Forgiveness	124
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.	Change	125
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.		126
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.		201
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.		202
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.		203
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.	Politics	204
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.	Sad	205
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.		206
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.		207
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.		208
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.		209
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.		210
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.		211
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.		212
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.		213
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.		214
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.		215
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.		216
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.		217
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.		218
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.		219

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