"Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state."

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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

— Hannah Arendt