In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
More Quotes by Arthur Keith
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.