Causes Quote by Jared Diamond

“Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for…

— Douglas Preston

The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because…

— Andreas Baader

“the worst thing that ever happened to the world was the white man coming across gun powder. –– the end of the world |…

— Nayyirah Waheed

“societies confronted with specific environmental circumstances-scarcity or abundance-have a higher risk of being affected by violent conflicts.”

— Philippe Le Billion

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians…

— Jared Diamond

“The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.”

— Claude McKay

Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral…

— Fethullah Gulen

“European colonialism was like an aggressive virus, striving on the weak African immune system. Africans must unite or perish!!!”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments,…

— Anna Lindh