Fighting words
Poor Human Nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy
name! Every fool, from King to policeman, from the flathead parson
to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively
of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan the more definite
his insistence on the wickedness and the weaknesses of human nature.
Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison,
with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?
- Emma Goldman