Great Throughts Treasury

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Emile Zola

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Absolute | Beginning | Disease | Eternal | Religion | Science | Old | Understand |

Emil M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

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Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I have not reached you, but approaches every day yourself you my foot three rivers and even a mountain I must cross. yet a desert, another sea, the trip but I count not, when I stand before you. We proceed easily as snow we stand, the water murmuring softly. rivers, deserts, mountains and sea are traversed by us. Yet death snatches me my price, looking up, he wins.

Action | Death | Life | Life |

Emile Zola

As they have dared, so shall I dare. Dare to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it, in full, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so.

Action | Harm | Humanity | Law | People | Protest | Truth | Will |

Emile Zola

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

Absolute | Authority | Capacity | Discipline | Means | Public | Rule | Talking |

Emile Zola

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Family | Lying | Means | Revolution |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

It's silly to complain of misfortune with twenty years in advance.

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Emma Goldman

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partly with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always the godless ones: the Atheists; they lived, fought, and died for them. They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself.

Action | Method |

Emma Goldman

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

Bigotry | Economics | Future | God | Kill | Love | Man | Means | Men | Past | Position | Religion | Will | Worth | God |

Emma Goldman

No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal!

Ignorance | Inhumanity | Man | Means | Protest | Revolution | Spirit | System | Wrong |

Emma Goldman

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?

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Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Birth | Hope | Means |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Love | Means |

Emma Goldman

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

Better | Life | Life | Means | Revolution | Society | Society |

Emma Goldman

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

Consciousness | Man | Philosophy | Society | Unity | Society | Teacher |

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Aims | Change | Dignity | Liberty | Means | Precept | Right |

Emma Goldman

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

History | Man | Means |

Emma Goldman

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Appetite | Means | Power | Property | Wealth |

Emmet Fox

Affirm your divine selfhood, look the world in the face and fear nothing.

God | Means | Mistake | Opportunity | Service | Truth | Will | God |