"Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely." — Rudolph Rummel
"Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely."
—
Rudolph Rummel
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
9 Quotes by Rudolph Rummel
Rudolph Rummel has 9 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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.…
-
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the…
-
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen,…
-
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…
-
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us…
-
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to…
See all 9 quotes by Rudolph Rummel »
More Absolute Quotes
This quote is filed under Absolute Quotes,
one of 1,809 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
-
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
-
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
-
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
-
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
-
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
-
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
-
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
See all 1,809 Absolute Quotes »