| The most violent element in society is ignorance. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of 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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- Emma Goldman |
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| 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. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind." |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| 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. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? |
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- Emma Goldman |
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| I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. |
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- Emma Goldman |
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