#aristocrat

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

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#aristocrats #poor #anarchy

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ↗

— John Updike

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#consist #every #learner #marriage #peasant

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

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#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority