Goldman

Famous quotes containing the word goldman:

    The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    ... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)