82 Quotes by Lithuanian authors

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Lithuanian sayings and lines often speak in a low voice: flint-dry humor, rain-soaked tenderness, and a stubborn trust in work and memory. Voices from forests and dunes weigh kinship, fate, and freedom, balancing pagan thunder with church-bell hush. Images of rye bread, storks, and amber carry the heft of history without grand gesture. The cadence leans toward sutartinės, interwoven, patient, slightly dissonant, where restraint sharpens truth. Expect reverence for land, suspicion of boast, and a light that arrives after long dusk, modest yet enduring.

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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"The most violent element in society is ignorance"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal"

Ben Shahn, Artist

Small: Ben Shahn

"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died"

Ben Shahn, Artist

Small: Ben Shahn

"An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint"

Ben Shahn, Artist

Small: Ben Shahn

"Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"When we can't dream any longer we die"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus"

Emma Goldman, Activist

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