Emma Goldman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Heaven, Promise

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

• If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Stress, Giving

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Work, Giving, Bread

• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Force, Ifs

• If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

  Emma Goldman

  Pride, Men, Numbers

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

  Emma Goldman

  War, Home, Independent

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

  Emma Goldman

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

• If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Sacred

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

• What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Path

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

  Emma Goldman

  Blessed, Hands, Dear Ones

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.164, Library of Alexandria

• A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Self, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

• The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

  Emma Goldman

  Hysteria, Giving, Political

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.102, PM Press

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