The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest crimina…

- Emma Goldman

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

- Emma Goldman

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

- Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

- Emma Goldman

You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly devel…

- Emma Goldman

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

- Emma Goldman

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance …

- Emma Goldman

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

- Emma Goldman

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

- Emma Goldman