I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.
Emma GoldmanLeo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Emma GoldmanThere are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Emma Goldman