Rudolph J. Rummel Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"Political scientists almost everywhere
have promoted the expansion of government power.
They have functioned as the clergy of oppression."

by:	Rudolph J. Rummel (1932-2014) Professor of political science, University of Hawaii
Source:	Death by Government, 1995
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-- G Kuhns, Carlsbad CA
"Clergy of oppression" is a very accurate and descriptive illumination of the subject matter. The sciences of biology, climate, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. — formal science, natural science, etc. have all been reduce to political science with little to no reliance on fact or truth. -- Mike, Norwalk
-- Mary, MI
-- jim k, Austin
The belief in the supremacy of the State is the religion of Power, practiced diligently by statists, socialists, communists, fascists, and all those that benefit from the yoking of capital and labor. -- E Archer, NYC