Emma Goldman Quotes

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

When you say, 'I'm sorry,' you turn people into your allies, even your partners.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

Love always overcomes hate.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.