The History of Ideas Quotes

“Hyper-organised societies, where the social control exercised by the government extends into more and more areas of people's lives, might become places in which voters do not have the fatalistic attitude towards winning and losing required by democracy. Too much may be at stake for the politicians as well because when their power is so extensive it becomes ever more painful to give it up.”
― David Runciman, The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution