The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom. — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency,… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
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