Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldmanwas an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 June 1869
CountryRussian Federation
advanced caution enriched mankind throw
Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
hysteria giving political
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.
economic effort mass
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
affirm beauty disbelieve gods purpose time
To disbelieve in the gods is at the same time to affirm life, purpose and beauty.
criminals deserve
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
being-free desire feminism
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
oscars anarchy foolish
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.
parent shadow morrow
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
murder function militarism
the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
inspired authority persecution
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.
tendencies states fetish
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.
sight glasses broken
Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.
expression broken slavery
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.
scandal craving
... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.