Frasi di Rudolph Joseph Rummel

„[There is an] unbridgeable chasm in the world. On one side are such criminal gangs, sanctified by the term government, and the United Nations they dominate, enforcing by their guns mass slavery, mass death, mass violence, mass impoverishment, and mass famine. On the other side are democratic countries where people are free, secure, and need not fear mass impoverishment, murder at the hands of government agents, and killing famines.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 12

„Well-established democracies do not make war on each other.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 106

„Democide is a government’s murder of people for any reason or no reason at all. Genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 76

„People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 116

„Free people never have famine.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 13

„The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking Power, i. e., through fostering democratic freedom.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Death by Government (1994), p. 27

„Democracies don’t murder their citizens.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence(1997), p. 95

„The more people are free, the greater their human development and national wealth. In short, freedom is the way to economic and social human security.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 13

„The citizens of democracies are the least likely to be murdered by their own government; the citizens of totalitarian, especially Marxist systems, the most likely.“

—  Rudolph Rummel, libro Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917

Origine: Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990), p. xi

„There is a good reason that all of this killing is unknown. The authoritarian and totalitarian thug regimes that do most of the killing usually control who writes their histories and what appears in them.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 76

„In the twentieth century, governments murdered, as a prudent estimate, 272,000,000 men, women and children. It could be over 400,000,000.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 75

„Then there is the common and fundamental justification of government that it exists to protect citizens against the anarchic jungle that would otherwise threaten their lives and property. Such archaic or sterile views show no appreciation of democide’s existence and all its related horrors and suffering. They are inconsistent with a regime that stands astride society like a gang of thugs over hikers they have captured in the woods, robbing all, raping some, torturing others for fun, murdering those they don’t like, and terrorizing the rest into servile obedience. This exact characterization of many past and present governments, such as Idi Amin’s Uganda, hardly squares with conventional political science.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Death by Government (1994), p. 26

„Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely. This new Power Principle is the message emerging from my previous work on the causes of war and this book on genocide and government mass murder—what I call democide—in this century. The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Death by Government (1994), pp. 1-2

„The less free the people within any two nations are, the bloodier and more destructive the war between them; the greater their freedom, the less likely such wars occur. Free people do not make war on each other.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 14

„Killing that is explicitly permitted is not democide.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Death by Government (1994), p. 40

„Most of the world's people have been robbed of their freedom by tyrants… In the last century alone, 272,000,000 were shot, burned, stabbed, tortured, beaten, starved to death, blasted to death, buried alive, or whatever other ways of murdering their slaves these thugs could imagine. This horrific and evil toll of bodies could head-to-toe circle the earth more than ten times. It is as though a catastrophic nuclear war had happened, but its mountain of deaths spread over each day of the last century“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 11

„Recall that democratic regimes in an exchange society are at one corner of the political triangle while totalitarian regimes with the coercive society they have constructed are at another. They therefore are at opposing ends of one side of the triangle, which is a continuum ranging from Freedom to Power.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

Origine: Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence(1997), p. 204

„In a few cases, regimes have publicized their murders, often to intimidate people. For instance, Communist Chinese government newspapers would report speeches by officials in which one might boast, ‘We killed 2 million bandits in the 10th region between November and January.’ The term bandit was standard lingo for presumed counterrevolutionaries.“

—  Rudolph Rummel

„By contrast, as Hayek explained in The Road to Serfdom—in his famous chapter ‘Why’ the worst get on top—centralized government power attracts aggressive, domineering personalities. They are the most likely to gain power. And the more power they have, naturally the less subject they are to restraint. The greater the likelihood such a country will pursue aggressive policies. The highest risks of war occur when two dictators face each other. There’s likely to be a struggle for supremacy.“

—  Rudolph Rummel