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237 quotes from Emma Goldman: 'If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.', 'People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.', and 'I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.'
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- The Child and Its Enemies
- What I Believe
- A New Declaration of Independence
- The Failure of Christianity
- Intellectual Proletarians
- Preparedness, The Road to Universal Slaughter
- The Philosophy of Atheism
- My Disillusionment in Russia
- Living My Life
- "Has My Life Been Worth while?"
Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be the most important question to be answe...
The student of the history of progressive thought is well aware that every idea in its early stages has been misrepresented, and the adherents of such ideas have been maligned and persecuted...The...
When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right...
Essay in the Journal Mother Earth(April 1913) Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying...
Full text online Those who are placed in positions which demand the surrender of personality, which insist on strict conformity to definite political policies and opinions, must deteriorate, must become mechanical, must lose all capacity to give anything really vital. The world is full of such unfortunate cripples. Their dream is to “arrive,” no ma...
Our whole civilization, our entire culture is concentrated in the mad demand for the most perfected weapons of slaughter. Ammunition! Ammunition! O, Lord, thou who rulest heaven and earth, thou God...
Essay in the journal Mother Earth(February 1916) It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe. Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such m...
Existing in manuscript as "My Two Years in Russia" this work was published as My Disillusionment with Russia (1923), and My Further Disillusionment with Russia(1924) and finally as a complete one-volume edition (1925) The STATE IDEA, the authoritarian principle, has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution. If I were to sum ...
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Station, power, wealth—how inadequate they have proved! How useless and insecure!The ideal of human kinship that would brook no injustice or social wrong agave the only meaning and purpose to my life. This ideal I found in anarchism. Not, to be sure, in the distorted image of a...It is true that parents today are learning to enhance the physical qualities of their children. But their minds and characters they cannot mould. The antiquated system of education and our perverse...Read selected quotes by Emma Goldman, an anarchist, feminist, activist, speaker and writer. She was born in Russia and deported to Russia, where she was critical of the Russian Revolution.
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. Emma Goldman. Philosophy, Men, Promise. Emma Goldman (2015).
