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Thursday, August 21, 2014

G.K. Chesterton: "The Pathetic Dilemma Of The Rich Man"



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

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"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)

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

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         Chesterton Quotations

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Chesterton's Wikipedia Page

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G.K. Chesterton's Works On The Web


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