" Very different, however, is the case that the strength of power is in inverse ratio to its extent - which is what we see today, when the political controls which extend in all directions and leave nothing untouched, are liable to be given, whether simultaneously or successively, contradictory impulsions, and the master of a regimented society is not a single mind, but a confused jumble. It is in such a case as certain as anything can be that, unless there is curtailment of the state's activities, the reins of government will in the end be brought together into one imperial hand, whatever its name it takes and from whatever place in society it comes. What, then, will an egalitarian society, in which the high command no longer resembles an excited crowd look like? "

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