Emma Goldman on Human Nature
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Emma Goldman, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Emma Goldman, entry #217937: "The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."
Attributed to Emma Goldman, entry #80610: "When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have …"
4 Quotes by Emma Goldman on Human Nature
"The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."
"When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions."
"The period of the actual revolution, the so-called transitory stage, must be the introduction, the prelude to the new social conditions. It is the threshold to the NEW LIFE, the new HOUSE OF MAN AND HUMANITY. As such it must be of the spirit of the new life, harmonious with the construction of the new edifice."
"No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society."