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.
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.
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