Emma Goldman

"Life is too short to waste on regret and too long to waste on resignation."

"Power corrupts the powerful and weakens the people."

"The only sin is the acceptance of a less-than-full life."

"Every moment is a choice to live or merely exist."

"The most vital thing in life is the power to create"

"I believe that freedom means responsibility, not privilege"

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take"

"Individuality is the essence of all that is beautiful"

"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair"

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another"

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime"

"True love means loving with your whole being, not holding back"

"Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither"

"Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious liberty has always been denounced"

"The most intense element in our lives is our dreams"

"Patriotism is a superstition artificially created to serve the interests of the ruling class"

"Character is something each one of us must build for ourselves from infancy to old age"

"The triumph of the individual is only possible when society has been perfected"

"Art is the expression of freedom and the negation of tyranny"

"Woman is truly enslaved when she is denied the right to her own thoughts and feelings"

"We cannot live only for ourselves; our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads"

"Civilization has taught us to eat cooked meat and failed to teach us to live peacefully"

"Education means training for life"

"The most important thing in any community is the preservation of human dignity"

"Fear is the greatest obstacle to progress"

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it"

"The beauty of artistic creation lies in its refusal to conform"

"Only through suffering and struggle can we achieve true growth"

"The world cannot progress if we remain bound by tradition"

"Love without freedom is merely possession"