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Divided by our everyday selves we stay at war, and safety from tyranny cannot save us from anarchy
Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said
What Matthew Arnold actually said
- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
By our everyday selves, however, we are separate, personal, at war; we are only safe from one another's tyranny when no one has any power; and this safety, in its turn, cannot save us from anarchy.
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↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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