" But by opening the prospect of power to all the ambitious talents, this arrangement makes the extension of power much easier. Under the ancien regime, societies moving spirits who had as they knew no chance of a share of power, were quick to denounce its smallest encroachment. Now, on the other hand, when everyone is potentially a minister, no one is concerned to cut down office to which he aspires one day himself, or to put sand in the machine, which he means to use himself when his turn comes. Hence, it is that there is in the political circles of a modern society. A wide complicity in the extension of power. "

― Bertrand De Jouvenel , On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth