Emma Goldman Quotes

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

I was born in revolution.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

We are revolutionaries.

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.