Thursday, March 14, 2019

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country.  The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.  The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists.”


    (from The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton)

  5½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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