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.
Emma GoldmanRead
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that despite society's efforts to suppress it, prostitution represents a perverse victory of strict moral judgment.
Emma Goldman's quote highlights the paradoxical nature of societal attitudes towards prostitution, indicating that even as it is demonized and oppressed, its existence reveals a triumph of the very moral framework that seeks to control it. This suggests that the struggle against repression ironically reinforces the validity of what is being suppressed, prompting reflection on the complexities of morality, freedom, and human nature.
Themes
ProstitutionPuritanismFreedomMoralitySociety
In practice
Example use cases
Discussing the topic of moral hypocrisy at a philosophy class.
More from Emma Goldman
All quotes βNo 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.
Emma GoldmanRead
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.
Emma GoldmanRead
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
Emma GoldmanRead
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.
Emma GoldmanRead
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma GoldmanRead
Similar quotes
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas AdamsRead
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.
W. H. AudenRead
All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Carl SchmittRead
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page._x000D_ _x000D_ They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day._x000D_ _x000D_ Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then._x000D_ _x000D_ Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
Edgar Allan PoeRead
Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.
Ignatius Of AntiochRead
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben JonsonRead