Top 45 Quotes by Emma Goldman

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

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.

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

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.

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.