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• To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

  Emma Goldman

  States, Tendencies, Shows

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

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• Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

  Emma Goldman

  Personality, Political, Causes

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

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

  Emma Goldman

  Teaching, Names, Atheism

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

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• True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

  Emma Goldman

  Rights, Broken, Feminism

  "Anarchism and Other Essays".

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• In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

  Emma Goldman

  Home, Land, Tradition

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• Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

  Emma Goldman

  Love Is, Atmosphere

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.157, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Mean, Russia

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Children

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

  Emma Goldman

  Determination, Business, Play

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.341, University of Illinois Press

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• Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Anarchy, Dawn

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.37, 谷月社

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• 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.

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• 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

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• The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Personality, Tears

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.24, 谷月社

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• 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”

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• so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Realizing, Preparedness

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

  Emma Goldman

  Murder, Function, Militarism

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (1917). “Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917”

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• readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Conflict, All Time

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.565, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Expression, Poison

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Liberty, Purpose

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Blood, Mind

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Children, Army

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

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• Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Personality, Wish

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Jealousy, Dope

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

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• 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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