Emma Goldman Quotes

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

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• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• I try to do my best.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Best
  • Try

• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Help
  • Knowing
  • Gossip

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Piano
  • Started
  • Ukulele

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Money
  • Blame

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Road

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Over

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Hope

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Great
  • Giving

• A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Opinion

• The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

  

  Jerry Only
  • Kids
  • Today

• The most violent element in society is ignorance.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Society
  • Ignorance