I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
		-- Emma Goldman
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There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry -- the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Free love? As if love is anything but free! Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
		-- Emma Goldman
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He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
		-- Emma Goldman
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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity.
		-- Emma Goldman
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After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
		-- Emma Goldman
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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.
		-- Emma Goldman
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It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The authoritarian principle has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The inherent tendency of the state is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Revolution is indeed a violent process.
		-- Emma Goldman
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If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly worth while.
		-- Emma Goldman
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In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood -- these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society -- the communist state suppressed to the point of extermination.
		-- Emma Goldman
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This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The period of the actual revolution, the so-called transitory stage, must be the introduction, the prelude to the new social conditions.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
		-- Emma Goldman
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It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Our cause cannot expect me to become a nun and the movement will not be turned into a cloister.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs.
		-- Emma Goldman
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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
		-- Emma Goldman
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The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
		-- Emma Goldman
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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism.
		-- Emma Goldman
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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
		-- Emma Goldman
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
		-- Emma Goldman
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