372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

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.

As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.