If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution. Emma Goldman More Quotes by Emma Goldman More Quotes From 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 citizens doors rooms so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter. Emma Goldman preparedness realizing people The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth. Emma Goldman fashion pain christian Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. Emma Goldman protection needs The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. Emma Goldman quality kind doe Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion. Emma Goldman anarchy dominion mind Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. Emma Goldman honesty self justice The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter. Emma Goldman method government goes-on What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad? Emma Goldman husband eye lust Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all. Emma Goldman liberty honesty mother [Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality. Emma Goldman long-life economic long True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity. Emma Goldman force army men 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 poison strong expression 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 atmosphere liberty art If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right! Emma Goldman sacred demand giving The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies. Emma Goldman class pregnancy america Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation. Emma Goldman vision suffering struggle The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow. Emma Goldman iron men heaven Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power. Emma Goldman majority coercion mean A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display. Emma Goldman majority care integrity
