QUOTES OF THE DAY

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman

“Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
― Emma Goldman

“‎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.”
― Emma Goldman

“The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
― Emma Goldman

“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“No real social change has ever been
brought about without a revolution –
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment,
for science, for religious, political, and
economic liberty, emanates from the minority,
and not from the mass.”
― Emma Goldman

“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.”
― Emma Goldman

“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
― Emma Goldman

“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks

“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
― Emma Goldman