372 Quotes by Emma Goldman

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather: Understand one another.

When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood – a truly free society.

Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion!

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman’s soul.

When we can’t dream any longer we die.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only ‘order’ that governments have ever maintained.

It is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man’s enslavement and all the horrors it entails.