Power thus expelled soon returns, however, under the spur of its requirements. The resources at his disposal are absurdly out of proportion to the area, which depends on it and to the population, which calls it the sovereign.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth (1949)

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