G.K. Chesterton: The Anarchy Of The Rich

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; 
the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

"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."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) 
English journalist and writer
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims. There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."  G. K. Chesterton  

G.K. Chesterton and Warren Buffett's Class War

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/gk-chesterton-and-warren-buffetts-class.html

Chesterton Viewed The Rich As "Oppressive" "Scum" And Failures

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/chesterton-considered-rich-oppressive.html

The Rich Are The Real Anarchists And Sully The World With Their Scum
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/chesterton-considered-rich-real.html

G.K. Chesterton On Charity, Hope And Universal Salvation

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/chesterton-on-charity-and-universal.html

G.K. Chesterton Quotations... And More

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/chesterton-quotations.html

 Chesterton Quotations

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Chesterton's Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_K._Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton's Works On The Web

http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/