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To believe that there can be good and evil in a collection of human beings, over and above the good or evil in the various individuals, is an error; moreover, it is an error which leads to totalitarianism, and is therefore dangerous...

"The State" is an abstraction; it does not feel pleasure or pain, it has no hopes or fears, and what we think of as its purposes are really the purposes of individuals who direct it. When we think concretely, not abstractly, we find, in place of "The State", certain people who have more power than falls to the share of most men. And so glorification of "The State" turns out to be, in fact, glorification of a governing minority. - 'Authority and the Individual', Bertrand Russell, 1949.