Emma Goldman Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• 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.

• Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Children, Betrayal

• Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Able, Anarchy

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Alternatives, Politics

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

  Emma Goldman

  World, Politics, Politician

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

• 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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