20/27 Your idea as to which are right and which are wrong is simply the law's idea. The man who is strong enough is the law." "Your doctrines are far-reaching," Arnold said. "What about the man who sweeps the crossings, the beggars who ask for alms ?" "They sweep crossings and they beg for alms," Sabatini replied, "because they are weak or foolish and because I am strong. You work for twenty-eight shillings a week because you are foolish. You can do it if you like, if it affords you any satisfaction to make a martyr of yourself for the sake of bolstering up a conventional system. |