Emma Goldman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

  Emma Goldman

  Parent, Shadow, Morrow

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

• The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Men, Primitive Man

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

• The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

  Emma Goldman

  Teacher, Average, Parent

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Law, Parent

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin