6 Quotes by Emma Goldman about liberty
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Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.
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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.
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There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.
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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.
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There's never been a good government.
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