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“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

Emma Goldman

Variant: The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

“When we can't dream any longer we die.”

Emma Goldman

Quoted by Margaret C. Anderson in "Emma Goldman in Chicago" http://books.google.com/books?id=zstCAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+we+can't+dream+any+longer+we+die%22&pg=PA321#v=onepage, Mother Earth magazine (December 1914)

“Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Patriotism… 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

“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”

Emma Goldman

Source: Red Emma Speaks

“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: 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

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”

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.”

Emma Goldman

“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

“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

p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman&#x27;s Emancipation (1906)

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

Emma Goldman

&quot;The Individual, Society and the State&quot; (1940) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1940/individual.htm <br class="br">Context: The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is &quot;public opinion.&quot; Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled &quot;queer,&quot; &quot;different,&quot; and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.

“‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”

Emma Goldman

“It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”

Emma Goldman

“Love is it's own protection.”

Emma Goldman

Source: Marriage and Love

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian.”

Emma Goldman

"Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap", a lecture (c. 1912), published in Red Emma Speaks, Part 1 (1972) edited by Alix Kates Shulman

“The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”

Emma Goldman