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  • It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

    "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 102, 1964.