Rudolph Rummel on Human Nature
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Rudolph Rummel, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Rudolph Rummel, entry #22293: "People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings."
Attributed to Rudolph Rummel, entry #146672: "Possibly 20,000,000 were killed in the war against the Nazis and from Nazi occupation, but many more millions were killed in Stalin’s simultaneous war on his own people."
4 Quotes by Rudolph Rummel on Human Nature
"People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings."
"Possibly 20,000,000 were killed in the war against the Nazis and from Nazi occupation, but many more millions were killed in Stalin’s simultaneous war on his own people."
"In total, communist regimes murdered nearly 148 million people from 1917 to 1987. For a perspective on this incredible toll, note that all domestic and foreign wars during the twentieth century killed in combat around 41 million."
"Saying that a state or regime is a murderer is a convenient personification of an abstraction. Regimes are in realty people with the power to command a whole society. It is these people that have committed the kilo- and megamurders of our century, and we must not hide their identity under the abstraction of the ‘state,’ ‘regime,’ ‘government,’ or ‘communist.’"