Emma Goldman Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

• 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

• Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

• wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Mean, Wealth

  Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, America, Joy

• What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Acquisition

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

• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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