"People who live in states have as a rule never experienced
the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical
possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what
grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative
merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here
is that preferences for political arrangements of society are
to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that
political institutions are either addictive like some drugs,
or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may
be one thing for some people and the other for others." | by: | |
Source: | The State (Oxford: Basic Blackwell, 1985) |
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