Rudolph Rummel Quotes

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• Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
• Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason…
• The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it…
• [During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;…
• Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
• Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
• 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…
• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world…
• The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

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