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
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
- 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.
- Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
- To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
- I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- 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.
- All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
- There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
- Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
- Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Best Quotes
- I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.
- I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
- There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
- If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
- Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.