Quotes by Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

American anarchist

Lived from: 1869 - 1940

Born: 27 june 1869 Died: 14 may 1940

  • Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
  • The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
  • 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.
  • To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
  • Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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  • Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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  • Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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  • 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.
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  • Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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  • If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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  • In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
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  • 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.
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  • It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
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  • It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
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  • Love needs no protection; it is its own protection
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  • Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
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  • 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?
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  • No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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  • Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
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  • Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
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  • Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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What are the most famous quotes from Emma Goldman?

The two most famous quotes from Emma Goldman are:

  • "Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
  • "Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."

When did Emma Goldman live?

Emma Goldman was born in 1869 and died in the year 1940.