Author: Emma Goldman

Quotes

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

- Emma Goldman

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.

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

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?

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?

- Emma Goldman

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

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

- Emma Goldman

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Emma Goldman

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

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

- Emma Goldman

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