Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
Interpretation
Absolute power leads to unchecked authority and can result in devastating consequences.
This quote by Rudolph Rummel highlights the dangers associated with absolute power. It suggests that when individuals or entities hold unchecked authority, the likelihood of catastrophic outcomes increases significantly, often leading to oppression, violence, and moral corruption. It serves as a warning against the concentration of power in a single entity or individual, emphasizing that power, when unrestrained, can corrupt and destroy.
In practice
In a political debate to illustrate the dangers of dictatorship.
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.
The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think about today..." "No, that's giving up... I'm still hpoing that yesterday will get better.
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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