All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense. - George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. The Devil's Disciple, Act II

(The Romans have set fire to the Library of Alexandria)

THEODOTUS: — What is burning there is the memory of mankind.
CAESAR: — A shameful memory. Let it burn.
THEODOTUS (wildly): — Will you destroy the past?
CAESAR: — Ay, and build the future with its ruins.

The old Whigs and new Tories of the school of Cobden and Bright, the "Philosophic Radicals," the economists of whom Bastiat is the type, Lord Wemyss and Lord Bramwell, Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. Auberon Herbert, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Mr. John Morley, Mr. Leonard Courtney: any of these is, in England, a more typical Anarchist than Bakounin. They distrust State action, and are jealous advocates of the prerogative of the individual, proposing to restrict the one and to extend the other as far as is humanly possible, in opposition to the Social-Democrat, who proposes to democratize the State and throw upon it the whole work of organizing the national industry, thereby making it the most vital organ in the social body.