Emma Goldman Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.78, University of Illinois Press

• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

• Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

• Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

  Emma Goldman

  Soul, Humanity, Atheism

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

• The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

  Emma Goldman

  Heart, Space, Soul

• True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Freedom, Soul, Court

  "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909". Book by Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, 2003.

• Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Expression, Law

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

• Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

  Emma Goldman

  Success, Ambition, Mean

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

• The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

  Emma Goldman

  Mirrors, Government, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

• What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the
  passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing
  the very depths of our little souls?

  Emma Goldman

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.427, Cosimo, Inc.

• Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Men, Evil

  "The Failure of Christianity". "Mother Earth" Journal, April 1913.

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