The Essential Emma Goldman Quotes

“moral”
― Emma Goldman, The Essential Emma Goldman—Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation

“can only be appeased by complete surrender. All the early sagas rest on that idea, which continues to be the Leitmotiv of the biblical tales dealing with the relation of man to God, to the State, to society. Again and again the same motif, man is nothing, the powers are everything. Thus Jehovah would only endure man on condition of complete surrender. Man can have all the glories of the earth, but he must not become conscious of himself. The State, society, and moral laws all sing the same refrain: Man can have all the glories of the earth, but he must not become conscious of himself.”
― Emma Goldman, The Essential Emma Goldman—Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation

“Religion is a superstition that originated in man’s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress. Organized churchism has stripped religion of its naïveté and primitiveness. It has turned religion into a nightmare that oppresses the human soul and holds the mind”
― Emma Goldman, The Essential Emma Goldman—Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation

“believe—indeed, I know—that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.”
― Emma Goldman, The Essential Emma Goldman—Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation