Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give' 'buy cheap and sell dear' 'one soiled hand washes the other.
Emma Goldman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
Anarchist
Autobiographer
Feminist
Journalist
Lecturer
Nurse
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Political Philosopher
Publisher
Kovno
Give
Sell
Take
Sells
Soiled
Giving
Dear
Reflex
World
Blessed
Washes
Hand
Reflexes
Politics
Motto
Business
Industrial
Hands
Cheap
More quotes by Emma Goldman
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Emma Goldman
If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.
Emma Goldman
What I believe is a process rather than a finality.
Emma Goldman
I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself to live for herself to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
Emma Goldman
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
Emma Goldman
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Emma Goldman
Love needs no protection it is its own protection.
Emma Goldman
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.
Emma Goldman
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
Emma Goldman
Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
Emma Goldman
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Emma Goldman
It is characteristic of theistic tolerance that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Emma Goldman
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
Emma Goldman
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against society, that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.
Emma Goldman
As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
Emma Goldman
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Emma Goldman
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
Emma Goldman
