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 Goldman
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. – Emma Goldman
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. – Emma Goldman