Emma Goldman Quotes About Patriotism

Quotes about: Patriotism

• Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotic, Fighting, Intelligent

  "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

• 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

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotic, Arrogance, Patriotism

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotism, Training, Principles

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

• Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotism, Liberty, Menace

• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.

  Emma Goldman

  Powerful, Hate, Heart

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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