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> [Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/our-knowledge-and-our-ability-to-handle-our-problems-progress-through/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

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## More by Rudolph Rummel

> [The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/the-way-to-virtually-eliminate-genocide-and-mass-murder-appears-to-be/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/political-scientists-almost-everywhere-have-promoted-the-expansion-of/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/power-kills-absolute-power-kills-absolutely/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/concentrated-political-power-is-the-most-dangerous-thing-on-earth/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/to-gauge-the-understanding-and-insight-that-metaphysics-provides-is/)

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> [Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/nobody-can-be-trusted-with-unlimited-power-the-more-power-a-regime/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [ \[During the 20th century\] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/during-the-20th-century-170-million-men-women-and-children-have-been/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/our-knowledge-and-our-ability-to-handle-our-problems-progress-through/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/the-more-power-a-government-has-the-more-it-can-act-arbitrarily/)

[Rudolph Rummel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolph-rummel/)

> [We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolph-rummel/we-have-a-solution-for-war-it-is-to-expand-the-sphere-of-liberty/)

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