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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

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  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate
  itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.

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  Circles, Revolution, Social

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

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  Law, Direct Action, Anarchy

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• It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

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  Mind, Social, Significant

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.41, PM Press

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• Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

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  Letting Go, Eye, Heart

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• ... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.

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  Eye, Years, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.133, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• [Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

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  Long, Long Life, Economic

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.55, PM Press

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• ... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

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  Business, Sacrifice, Commodity

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

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• The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

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  Country, Freedom, Stupid

  Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

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  Slavery, Moral, Accepted

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.109, 谷月社

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• Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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  Fighting, Men, Ideas

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

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  Life And Death, Understanding, Tolerance

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

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  Art, People, Creative

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.39, 谷月社

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