Emma Goldman Quotes

If you are going to take the political pain of slaying sacred cows, you might as well slaughter the whole herd as just go after one or two.

And when in doubt, be extreme.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

I think we do need radicals. We need extremists, because that's how change happens.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

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

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end in superstitions.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

By any means necessary.

Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.