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After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
Anarchist
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Kovno
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Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?
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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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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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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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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.
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