Famous Quotes - Tags - Born In Russia

  • ... from Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare... More
  • ... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should... More
  • ... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal. More
  • ... resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal. More
  • ... the aspiring immigrant ... is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect... More
  • ... the greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. More
  • ... the keynote of government is injustice. More
  • ... the living, vital truth of social and economic well-being will become a reality only through... More
  • ... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter,... More
  • ... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an... More
  • ... woman’s narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty... More
  • ...I want to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is... More
  • ...I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half... More
  • A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the... More
  • A perfect personality ... is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the... More
  • A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has... More
  • All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. More
  • America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic... More
  • Anarchism ... stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the... More
  • Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the... More
  • Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings man the consciousness of himself; which maintains... More
  • As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete... More
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic,... More
  • Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within... More
  • Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions... More
  • Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom. More
  • Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true... More
  • How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I’ve known is... More
  • I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft,... More
  • It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am... More
  • Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore... More
  • One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true... More
  • Outside America I should hardly be believed if I told how simply, in my experience, Dover Street... More
  • Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies... More
  • Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are... More
  • Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of... More
  • Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look... More
  • Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is... More
  • Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting. More
  • The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be... More
  • The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair,... More
  • The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as... More
  • The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from... More
  • The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. More
  • The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great... More
  • The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins... More
  • To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body,... More
  • Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as... More
  • You mean those nuts that burn their bras and walk around all disheveled and hate men? They’re... More
  • [Anarchism] is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social... More
  • [Woman’s] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of... More

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