You've got that eternal idiotic idea that.... : Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“ 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 ”

G.K. Chesterton
  • From : The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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