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. ”