Emma Goldman Quotes

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Emma Goldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940

Topics

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I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

Joe Morton

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The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

John Lithgow

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Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

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That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Ron Chernow

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The very foundation of our nation's economy is predicated on the health, growth, and vitality of our local communities.

Ron Dellums

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It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

Loni Anderson

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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Chuck Palahniuk

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The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

Brian Sutton-Smith

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To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.

Arturo Toscanini

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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

Alice Morse Earle

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I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

Alice Walker

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