"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 others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide."

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Source : "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, pp. 1-2, 1994.

Rudolph Rummel

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. ... This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...”
“One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events”
“I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.”
“I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers”
“Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.”
“Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 16, 2011
“Smile if you want a smile from another face.”
“My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.”

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