Emma Goldman Quotes

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

We are revolutionaries.

I'm a radical, and I always have been.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

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.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

Ready for the revolution!

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Every revolution begins with someone whining.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Revolutions never go backward.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.