Top 45 Quotes by Emma Goldman

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

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.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

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

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.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

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