"Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The……" — Rudolph Rummel
"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 for promoting freedom."
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Rudolph Rummel
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9 Quotes by Rudolph Rummel
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Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
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The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the…
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[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen,…
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Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
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Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.
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Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of…
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To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us…
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The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to…
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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