religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
Emma Goldman'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
Emma GoldmanSuccess achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
Emma GoldmanAnarchism 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.
Emma Goldman