Emma Goldman

(329 votes)   Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist

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(315 votes)   Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

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(295 votes)   Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

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1869-1940, American Anarchist

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(284 votes)   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. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

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(200 votes)   In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''

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(149 votes)   It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.

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(125 votes)   Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

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(32 votes)   If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

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(31 votes)   No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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(30 votes)   All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

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(30 votes)   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.

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(29 votes)   The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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(29 votes)   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.

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(28 votes)   Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

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(28 votes)   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.

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