Peace Quote by 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

“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”

— Tacitus

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

— John Dewey

“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent…

— George Orwell

Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Some of the world’s violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between…

— Jonathan Glover

“In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own…

— George Orwell

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

— Christian Lous Lange

“Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and…

— Dr Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

“This is the key to understanding the difference between indigenous and civilized warfare: Even in warfare the indigenous maintain relationships with their honored enemy.…

— Derrick Jensen

“But in a world of fixed size, with no way to get more territory without taking it from a neighbor, there was always a…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood,…

— Robert Reich