If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Quote by Emma Goldman
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
- 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.
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
- If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
- 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.
- 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.
- The most violent element in society is ignorance.
- There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
- I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Best Quotes
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
- There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.