Emma Goldman Quotes
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression … How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, "a chariot wheel" which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Emma Goldman, 1869-1940, Writer and Reformer, Address To The Jury in her trial, July 9, 1917
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This is not strictly true although it was in many cases in Mises career. However many of the great scientists, inventers, artists, entrepreneurs, and writers have been very positive about the government of the time. Many even credited the government for enabling or assisting their achievement. Even in Nazi Germany there were a few scientists who admired the Hitler government. However, in America, the educational system which gave so money contributors to humanity their start and preparation and in many cases government funding or previous research or facilities were recognized as instrumental in the development of the innovation. Many of the artists and writers of the 1940s-1960s credited the New Deal for their development and opportunity to create many of their great contributions. Internet entrepreneurs who changed the world in the late 20th century all acknowledge the Federal Government role in developing and deploying if the Internet. And there are few Nobel Prize winners who do not acknowledge Federal Scientific Research Grants and previous government funded and sometimes conducted (like the Human Genome) research that helped with or made the contribution. Even contributions like the telegraph and the railroad depended in initial government funding to make their contribution. Private capital could not be found to take the risk of financing these radically new ideas.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
