The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.
Emma GoldmanThe State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma GoldmanPredigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.
Emma GoldmanReligion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
Emma GoldmanLeo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Emma Goldman