Quote by Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance. - Emma Goldman

The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. – Emma Goldman

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. – Emma Goldman

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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

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You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. – Norman Juster

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G. McAdoo

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You can be sincere and still be stupid. – Charles F. Kettering

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Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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