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“the most violent element in society is ignorance” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“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 be loved.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that it will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“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, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Let us not overlook vital things because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“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.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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