Emma Goldman Quotes

while the modern historical school of economists appear to be only exploring the monuments of the past, they are really shaking the foundations of many of our institutions in the present.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Ideas need collective thought.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

He must needs go that the devil drives.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of "thought." It is not "thought" which needs showing.

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.