I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.
Emma GoldmanThe whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.
Emma GoldmanThe powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.
Emma Goldman[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
Emma GoldmanDirect action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman