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WT Sharpe · 07-11-2014, 01:32 PM

....."Mere mobs!" repeated his new friend with a snort of scorn. "So you talk about mobs and the working classes as if they were the question. 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, as you can see from the barons' wars."
..........— Inspector Ratcliffe, a fictional character created by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer, critic, Christian apologist, and much more. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908), Chapter XI: "The Criminals Chase the Police."

07-11-2014, 01:32 PM	#2369
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	....."Mere mobs!" repeated his new friend with a snort of scorn. "So you talk about mobs and the working classes as if they were the question. 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, as you can see from the barons' wars." ..........— Inspector Ratcliffe, a fictional character created by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer, critic, Christian apologist, and much more. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908), Chapter XI: "The Criminals Chase the Police."