Emma Goldman Quotes

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

Only force would produce social change.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Turmoil stimulates.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.