Quote

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Emma Goldman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Meaning
Economic
Woman
Long
Parasitism
Life
Blurred
Utterly
Conception
Equality

More quotes by Emma Goldman

Image
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
Emma Goldman
Image
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
Emma Goldman
Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Emma Goldman
Image
... 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
Image
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
Emma Goldman
Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
Emma Goldman
Image
There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
Emma Goldman
Image
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.
Emma Goldman
Image
Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
Emma Goldman
Image
Understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Image
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.
Emma Goldman
Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.
Emma Goldman
Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
Emma Goldman
Image
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
Image
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman
Image
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
Emma Goldman
Image
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
Image
There's never been a good government.
Emma Goldman
Image
After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
Emma Goldman
Image
Love needs no protection it is its own protection.
Emma Goldman