Quotes By Emma Goldman

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

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

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

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.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.