# Quote — Irvine Welsh, The Acid House

> That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

- Author: [Irvine Welsh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/irvine-welsh.md)
- Book: [The Acid House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/irvine-welsh/the-acid-house.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/irvine-welsh/the-acid-house/thats-all-very

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> Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.

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