Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
Category Archive: Emma Goldman
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.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
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.