Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Emma GoldmanRather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
Emma GoldmanThe State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
Emma GoldmanMilitarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.
Emma Goldman