There's never been a good government. Emma Goldman More Quotes by Emma Goldman More Quotes From Emma Goldman Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors. Emma Goldman rocks men night In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. Emma Goldman political real people 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 dream love men The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined. Emma Goldman persecution inspired authority The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization. Emma Goldman depth men mean Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia. Emma Goldman russia real mean Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead? Emma Goldman week waste body There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. Emma Goldman liberty purpose mean No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? Emma Goldman chariots law ideas More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. Emma Goldman dictator majority class Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance? Emma Goldman marriage husband children 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 voice men war 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. Emma Goldman growth heart people ... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. Emma Goldman resistance responsibility men Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality. Emma Goldman century personality mind The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty. Emma Goldman government mirrors soul 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. Emma Goldman crush passion love Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. Emma Goldman atmosphere love-is 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. Emma Goldman demand path giving Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn. Emma Goldman anarchy dawn philosophy
