"We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes" -
"There you are, bringing class into it again..." -
"That's what it's all about... If only -" -
"Please, please, good people, I am in haste. What knight lives in that castle?" -
"No one lives there." -
"Well, who is you lord?" -
"We don't have a lord." -
"What?" -
"I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune, we take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week." -
"Yes..." -
"... But all decisions of that officer..." -
"Yes, I see." -
"... must be approved at a bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs." -
"Be quiet." -
"... But a two-thirds majority..." -
"Be quiet! I order you to shut up!" -
"Order, eh? Who does he think he is?" -
"I am your King." -
"Well, I didn't vote for you." -
"You don't vote for kings." -
"Well, how did you become King, then?" -
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in purest shimmering samite, held Excalibur aloft from the bosom of the waters to signify that by Divine Providence... I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur... that is why I am your King." -
"Look, strange women lying on their backs in ponds handing over swords... that's no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." -
"Be quiet!" -
"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." -
"Shut up!" -
"I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away." -
"Shut up, will you. Shut up!" -
"Ah! Now... we see the violence inherent in the system." -
"Shut up!" -
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help, I'm being repressed!" -
"Bloody peasant!"
