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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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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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Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.
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Pettiness separates breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.
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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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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
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The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
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Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.
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Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.
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If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.
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I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
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The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.
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