Source: On Aggression (1963), Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility
“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.”
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Emma Goldman
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