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Crime is misdirected energy that laws cannot abolish while institutions misdirect people
Drawn from what Emma Goldman said
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Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Emma Goldman said
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.
Where this was said
↗Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)gutenberg.org
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