Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Quote by Emma Goldman

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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but,...

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but,...

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so...

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so...

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

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

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

If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!

If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in...

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in...

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates...

Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates...

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

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

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other...

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other...

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't...

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried...

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried...

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism...

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes...

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the...

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is...

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is...

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps...