Absolute power Quote by Rudolph Rummel Download Open image “Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.” — Rudolph Rummel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolute power Absolutes Funny Inspirational Love
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth is absolute… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle in darkness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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