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“So long as one can use scented candy to abate the foul breath of hypocrisy, Puritanism is triumphant.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

“It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

“With Puritanism as the constant check upon American life, neither truth nor sincerity is possible. Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct, curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Hypocrisy of Puritanism

“Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty

“The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

“Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

“I do not mean to deny the biologic, physiologic, or psychologic factors in creating crime; but there is hardly an advanced criminologist who will not concede that the social and economic influences are the most relentless, the most poisonous germs of crime.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

“Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Psychology of Political Violence

“Obviously, Anarchism, or any other social theory, making man a conscious social unit, will act as a leaven for rebellion.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Psychology of Political Violence