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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

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  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

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  Integrity, Lying, Believe

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

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• The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

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  Teacher, Average, Parent

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

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• 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.

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  Regret, Father, Self

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

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• Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

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  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

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  Hate, Law, Long

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

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  Pain, Men, Long

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

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• The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements

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  Class, Ideas, Political

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

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

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  Kings, Names, Weakness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• 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?

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  Heart, Space, Soul

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• Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

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  Real, Men, Color

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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  Wind, World, Foolish

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• Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

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  Direct Action, Logical, Method

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

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  Crime, Authority, Strongest

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

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• One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

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  Social, Extremes, True Things

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

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  Religious, Real, Effort

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• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

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  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

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  Government, Free Spirit, Weight

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• "What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

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  Giving Up, Men, Order

  "Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

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• Love is it's own protection.

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  Love Is, Protection

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• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

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  Religious, Block, Men

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

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  Bigs, Broads, Breadth

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.150, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

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  Peace, Expression, People

  Emma Goldman (2013). “Living My Life”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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  Class, Majority, Dictator

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

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• True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

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  Army, Men, Force

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.381, University of Illinois Press

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