Confronting Leviathan Quotes

“The illusion of the modern world and of modern citizens is that politics will go away if you don't pay attention to it, that if you as a modern citizen get on with your own business, then other people will get on with theirs and leave you alone. But they won't. If you don't do politics, someone else will do your politics for you. That's how the modern state works. Its power depends on you, but if you're not interested in it, it won't simply leave you alone. Its power will become arbitrary and coercive, (pp66)”
― David Runciman, Confronting Leviathan