“The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.”

—  Bertrand Russell

Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments

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