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" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "

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" 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. "

" The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. "

" To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. "

" The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. "

" There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. "

" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "

" 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. "

" Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. "

" 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. "

" Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. "

" Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. "

" Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. "

" Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

" 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. "

" When we can't dream any longer we die. "

" The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. "

" Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "

" 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. "

" The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. "

" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "

" Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. "

" The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "