“There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare in prestate societies was both frequent and important. If anything, peace was a scarcer commodity for… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from “progress”—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to disdain it.… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“To a great extent, the superior transportation and agricultural technology of Europe and its efficient economic and logistic methods made possible its triumph over… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Primitive (and guerrilla) warfare consists of war stripped to its essentials: the murder of enemies; the theft or destruction of their sustenance, wealth, and… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“It was the concentration of resources and power in hierarchical political organizations, the millions of cannon-fodder citizens subject to their disposal, the galleon, compass… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Most of the evils attributed to civilization and progress—such as social inequality and subordination, murder, theft, rape, vandalism, and conquest—are found concentrated in the… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere of Western… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.” — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Except in geographical scale, tribal warfare could be and often was total war in every modern sense. Like states and empires, smaller societies can… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“Military ferocity is not a fixed quality of any race or culture, but a temporary condition that usually bears the seeds of it own… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
