Emma Goldman Quote

What is generally regarded as success — acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige — I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished — his development has stopped at that point.


Harper's Magazine (1934)


What is generally regarded as success — acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige — I consider the most dismal failures. I...

What is generally regarded as success — acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige — I consider the most dismal failures. I...

What is generally regarded as success — acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige — I consider the most dismal failures. I...

What is generally regarded as success — acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige — I consider the most dismal failures. I...