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Quotes from The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War — Rudolph Rummel

d. 2014

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The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Where people are free, political violence is minimal.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

The more people are free, the greater their human development and national wealth. In short, freedom is the way to economic and social human security.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

The less democratic a country is, the move intense its foreign violence.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Well-established democracies do not make war on each other.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Democracy is a metasolution to the problem of diversity.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

The social structure of a free, democratic society creates the psychological conditions for its greater internal peace.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Communists, when in control of a nation, have murdered more than 3.6 times the number of people killed in combat in all wars, including the two world wars.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

The more freedom a people have, the more unlikely the government will murder them. Democratically free governments do not murder their own people.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Democracy says, ‘Govern yourself, but do so in a manner consistent with the same right of others.’ Democracy does not lay down a template for each person’s life, as do dictatorships.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Free people never have famine.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Democide is a government’s murder of people for any reason or no reason at all. Genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Freedom produces wealth and prosperity.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

There is a good reason that all of this killing is unknown. The authoritarian and totalitarian thug regimes that do most of the killing usually control who writes their histories and what appears in them.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

In the twentieth century, governments murdered, as a prudent estimate, 272,000,000 men, women and children. It could be over 400,000,000.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

The less free the people within any two nations are, the bloodier and more destructive the war between them; the greater their freedom, the less likely such wars occur. Free people do not make war on each other.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

In total, communist (Marxist-Leninist) regimes murdered nearly 148 million people from 1917 to 1987. For a perspective on this incredible toll, note that all domestic and foreign wars during the twentieth century killed in combat around 41 million.

The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007)

Attribution

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