372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after.

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.

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested – for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals.

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.