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

- Rudolph Rummel

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

- Rudolph Rummel

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 …

- Rudolph Rummel

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

- Rudolph Rummel

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

- Rudolph Rummel

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…

- Rudolph Rummel

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

- Rudolph Rummel

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…

- Rudolph Rummel

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

- Rudolph Rummel