Emma Goldman Quotes

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Biology always beats will power.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

The intelligence which has converted the brother of the wolf into the faithful guardian of the flock ought to be able to do something towards curbing the instincts of savagery in civilized men.

It is futile to go against human nature.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

Pussy really is the ultimate motivator of all mankind. No, don't clap, this is a flaw in the system!

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

The sexual impulse is to me neither a low degrading thing nor something extremely sacrosanct and holy. I regard it as a fundamentally normal, clean, lifeful instinct.

Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act in ways contrary to those we've been socialized with.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.