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“There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.”

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Emma Goldman was a prominent American writer, lecturer, and activist, known for her work in anarchism and feminism. Born on June 27, 1869, in Lithuania, she immigrated to the United States in her teens. Goldman's life was marked by her advocacy for workers' rights, free speech, and sexual liberation. She was a key figure in the American labor movement and the early 20th-century radical movement. Her influential writings and speaking engagements made her a leading voice in the fight for social and political change. She passed away on May 14, 1940. more

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.”

Economic Ordinary Agreement Arrangements Binding Ordinary Life Pact

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.”

Country Conflict All Time Readiness Militarism Armed Conflict

Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.”

Function Murder Militarism

Book:Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

Source: Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

“Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.”

Nations Elements Productive Strongest Revenue Militarism

Book:Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

Source: Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

“You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.”

Interest Military Weapons Standing Function Army Murder Instruments Soldier Boxes Teeth Tin Militarism

Book:Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter

Source: Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter

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