Emma Goldman Quotes

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

Politics, Voting, Changed

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Valentine's Day, Rather, Roses

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Education, Sympathy, Kindness

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Strong, Character, Sex

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

Love, Stress, Give

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman

Time, Great, Law

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

Society, Ignorance, Violent

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman

Revolution, Dance

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman

Great, Him, Two

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

Someone, Said, Effort

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman

Understand, Before, Forgive

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman

Life, Love, After

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman

Human, Become, While

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

Change, Great, Human

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman

Society, Thought, Sin

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

Marriage, Love, After

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Emma Goldman

Sex, Moral, Once

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Politics, Change, Real

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman

Understand, Motto, Forgive

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Emma Goldman

Live, Place, Poor

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Emma Goldman

Women, Men, History

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.
Emma Goldman

Love, Free, Brains

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman

Education, Mind, Accept

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman

Woman, Made, Free

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Emma Goldman

Action, Logical, Direct

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Biography

Nationality: Lithuanian

Born: June 27, 1869

Died: May 14, 1940

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