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Emma Goldman Inspirational Quotes (161)

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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.
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Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.
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Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.
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Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.
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... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.
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I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
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Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
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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 morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.
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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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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
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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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Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.
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Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.
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Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.
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It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
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To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
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