Quotes By Emma Goldman

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

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

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.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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

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.

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

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

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.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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

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.