Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.
The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.
The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display.
Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.
It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
Religion is a superstition that originated in man’s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.
Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
Patriotism is a menace to liberty.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman’s soul.
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry – the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.
What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.
Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.