Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.

— Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman Quotes

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one.

— Emma Goldman

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

— Emma Goldman

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

— Emma Goldman
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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.

— Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

— Emma Goldman

When we can’t dream any longer we die.

— Emma Goldman

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

— Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

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

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.

— Emma Goldman

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

— Emma Goldman
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They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

— Emma Goldman

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

— Emma Goldman

In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

— Emma Goldman

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

— Emma Goldman
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