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“It is sad that hundreds of thousands of people can be killed by governments with hardly an international murmur, while a war killing several thousand people can cause an immediate world outcry and global reaction.”
“The theory is that democratic systems provide a path to peace, and universalizing them would eliminate war and minimize global, political violence”
“Killing that is explicitly permitted is not democide.”
“Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom.”
“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.”
“People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.