"The Ottoman Empire was an ugly affair, but they had the right idea. The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs, and their own regions and their own communities with a lot of local self determination."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.