Quote of the Day - Anthony Burgess on the State

"But think - the State is only an instrument. Everything depends on who has control of that instrument, which can so easily be transformed into a weapon. It's unwise to assume, even with our heightened wariness of tyranny, a continuation of a tradition of liberalism. A new Hitler could arise in Europe and be overjoyed by a civil service thinking in the old terms of restraint and democratic rights. Undoubtedly the computers of the new world will have Jews neatly listed, as well as dangerous intellectual free-thinkers."