The western Chinese region of Xinjiang, a laboratory of the future of totalitarian control:
"I had always assumed that being rational people that we would work something out that recognized and respected all the legitimate interests and desires of everybody. What I found was a very different picture."
"...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"
