372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

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.

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.

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.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

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.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.