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Quotes from Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence — Rudolph Rummel

d. 2014

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Democracies don’t murder their citizens.

Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence (1997)

Recall that democratic regimes in an exchange society are at one corner of the political triangle while totalitarian regimes with the coercive society they have constructed are at another. They therefore are at opposing ends of one side of the triangle, which is a continuum ranging from Freedom to Power.

Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence (1997)

In sum, theoretical and empirical research establishes that democratic civil liberties and political rights promote nonviolence and is a path to a warless world. The clearest evidence of this is that there has never been a war between well-established democracies, while numerous wars have occurred between all other political systems;…

Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence (1997)

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