"More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a contest to capture state power has at times apparently replaced religion (sometimes even appearing to eclipse market economics) as the focus of faith that can move mountains."
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J. M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World (Fifth Edition) (2007)
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