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Emma Goldman

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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

Emma Goldman

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.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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

Emma Goldman

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

– Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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

– Emma Goldman

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