The rulers in the citadel are the people who acquired the capacity or the tendency to trust each other, and hence to be cohesive, by being ungoverned. If you wish to govern, you must never have submitted to government yourself. Only the ungoverned condition of the savannah, desert, and mountain, engenders the kind of tribal group whose members trust each other and display cohesion.

XREF: Inverts the usual Hobbesian logic that civilization tames the unruly into governable subjects; here the ungoverned are themselves the natural rulers.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1983