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Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
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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True, we have no conscription that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.
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The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
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Yes, love is free it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
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The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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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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Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
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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.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
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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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all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
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Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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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 more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
Emma Goldman
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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