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.
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
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