Quotes By Emma Goldman

When we can't dream any longer we die.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

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.

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

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

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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

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.

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.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.