Thorold Rogers: Anarchy the Offspring of Privilege

Disorder and anarchy have generally, in the history of social civilization, arisen from no other cause than the excesses, the arrogance, the conspiracies of a privileged class.  Occasionally they have ensued from the revenge which has been given by a liberated and insulted people, when it suspects with more or less reason that the yoke will be imposed on it anew.  Democracies have crushed oligarchies remorselessly, but only when they have been stimulated to vengeance by intolerable wrong.

--- J. B. Thorold Rogers