372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.