Rudolph Rocker Quotes
Even revolutions can only develop and mature the germs which already exist and have made their way into the consciousness of men; they cannot themselves create these germs or create new worlds out of nothing.
Rudolph Rocker, 1873-1958, German Anarchist Writer and Philosopher and Editor, Anarcho-Syndicalism, 1938
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Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
1st Duke of Wellington
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.
Johann Rudolf Rocker was a German anarchist writer and activist. Though often described as an anarcho-syndicalist, he was a self-professed anarchist without adjectives, believing that anarchist schools of thought represented "only different methods of economy" and that the first objective for anarchists was "to secure the personal and social freedom of men".
