“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere of Western self-reproach and neo-Rousseauian nostalgia is prevalent in the views espoused by many postwar anthropologists.” — 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. The privileged few who eat better, lead longer and more stimulating lives because of modern agriculture, medicine, education, mass communications, and travel, and are most cushioned from physical discomfort and inconvenience by industrial technology are the… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share
“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 essential resources; and the inducement in them of insecurity and terror. It conducts the basic business of war without recourse to ponderous formations or equipment, complicated maneuvers, strict chains of command, calculated strategies, time tables, or… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share
“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
