Politics Quotes by Lawrence H. Keeley

“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

“Efficiency is a ratio, not an absolute.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“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

“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