Monday, August 08, 2011

Emma Goldman is pretty awesome.

"Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society."
-- Emma Goldman
(1869-1940)
Source: Anarchism
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Emma.Goldman.Quote.A1AC

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