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Quotes from Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman

1869–1940 Russia

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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

No real social change has ever come about without a revolution.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Human nature asserts itself regardless of all laws, nor is there any plausible reason why nature should adapt itself to a perverted conception of morality.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

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

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Obviously, Anarchism, or any other social theory, making man a conscious social unit, will act as a leaven for rebellion.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

I prefer to reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

An army and navy represents the people's toys.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

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.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for that great structure wherein all nationalities shall be united into a universal brotherhood, — a truly FREE SOCIETY.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

With Puritanism as the constant check upon American life, neither truth nor sincerity is possible. Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct, curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses.

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Goldman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.