Emma Goldman цитаты

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„Анархизм, означает освобождение разума человека от власти религии, освобождение тела человека от власти вещей, освобождение от запретов и кандалов правительства, он означает социальный порядок основанный на собрании людей. Мысль проста, чиста, истинна она зажигает бунтарский дух, но понимаешь одно — истинная свобода требует не соизмеримых жертв и чего-то более. Большинство людей только думают, что хотят свободы, а на самом деле стремятся в узы социального порядка, жёстких законов, материализма. Единственная свобода нужная человеку — свобода жить комфортно.“

„Ревность и зависть — это два одинаково плохих способа сохранить любовь: если они что и делают, то только разрушают твою собственную самооценку и самоуважением. Ревнивые люди, равно как и завистливые друзья, сбрасывают вас на несколько ступенек вниз — туда, где заканчивается любовь и начинается отвращение и омерзение в отношениях.“

„Когда мы уже больше не можем мечтать, мы умираем.“

“Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.”

“Free love? As if love is anything but free!”

“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”

“There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.”

“I do not believe that woman will make politics worse; nor can I believe that she could make it better. If, then, she cannot improve on man’s mistakes, why perpetrate the latter?”

“What would become of the rich, if not for the poor? What would become of these idle, parasitic ladies, who squander more in a week than their victims earn in a year, if not for the eighty million wage-workers? Equality, who ever heard of such a thing?”

“Society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.”

“Human nature asserts itself regardless of all laws, nor is there any plausible reason why nature should adapt itself to a perverted conception of morality.”

“It is a conceded fact that woman is being reared as a sex commodity, and yet she is kept in absolute ignorance of the meaning and importance of sex.”

“So long as one can use scented candy to abate the foul breath of hypocrisy, Puritanism is triumphant.”

“It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices.”

“With Puritanism as the constant check upon American life, neither truth nor sincerity is possible. Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct, curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses.”

“Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?”

“The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge.”

“Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.”

“I do not mean to deny the biologic, physiologic, or psychologic factors in creating crime; but there is hardly an advanced criminologist who will not concede that the social and economic influences are the most relentless, the most poisonous germs of crime.”

“Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things.”

“Obviously, Anarchism, or any other social theory, making man a conscious social unit, will act as a leaven for rebellion.”