Emma Goldman Quotes on Conformity

4 quotes

  1. It is characteristic of theistic 'tolerance' that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

  2. 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 father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  3. Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

  4. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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