Emma Goldman

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.