"But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties."

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Source : Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

Bertrand de Jouvenel

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