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Quotes from Death by Government — Rudolph Rummel

d. 2014

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The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking Power, i.e., through fostering democratic freedom.

Death by Government (1994)

Killing that is explicitly permitted is not democide.

Death by Government (1994)

The less freedom people have the more violence, the more freedom the less violence. I put this here as the Power Principle: power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

Death by Government (1994)

The more constrained the power of governments, the more it is diffused, checked and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide. At the extremes of Power, totalitarian communist governments slaughter their people by the tens of millions, while many democracies can barely bring themselves to execute even serial murderers.

Death by Government (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rudolph Rummel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.