372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one’s self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weakness of human nature.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.

People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

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

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don’t give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color – be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik – is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class...