Emma Goldman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”

“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.”

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.”

“Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.”

“If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.”

“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”

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

“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

“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.”