Logo - Feel The Words

Emma Goldman Quotes

Most Famous Emma Goldman Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best emma-goldman quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Emma Goldman Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

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.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

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

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot...

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Emma Goldman Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.