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" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "
Accept
Will
Only
" Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. "
Man
Great
Harmony
" Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. "
Before
Forgive
Forgiveness
" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "
Crime
Energy
Misdirected
" Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. "
Logical
Consistent
Direct
" Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. "
New
Race
Vision
" Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. "
Man
Brains
Free
" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "
Spirit
Poor
Dull
" Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "
World
Enough
Foolish
" Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "
World
Caution
Enough
" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "
Diamonds
Table
Valentine's Day
" If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. "
Part
Your
Want
" If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. "
Never
Love
Take
" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "
Politics
Voting
Changed
" In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. "
Home
Enough
Early
" It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. "
Man
Moral
Sex
" Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. "
Herself
Free
Modern
" Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? "
Mother
Victim
Picture
" No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. "
Great
Place
Law
" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. "
Effort
Kindness
Child
" No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. "
Revolution
Change
Thought
" One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. "
Too
Dealing
Cannot
" Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. "
Baby
People
Every Day
" On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. "
Love
Marriage
Falling
" Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. "
Industrial
Politics
Business
" Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. "
Chained
Triumph
Nevertheless
" Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. "
Strong
Way
Expression
" 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. "
Effort
Seems
Necessity
" Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. "
Said
Effort
Think
" The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. "
Loved
Equality
Fair
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