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| Emma Goldman
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen? If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor. It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. It takes less mental effort to condemn than to think. Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. 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. No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. 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. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass. The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. The majority cares little for ideals and integrity. What it craves is display. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. The most violent element in society is ignorance. The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister. The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made (sic) law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary. The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... an army and navy represents the people's toys. To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. We americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. |
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