“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)
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