[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or wor….

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom..

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 ….

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty..

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and har….

Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inn….

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression..

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on oth….

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely..

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth..