The talented American sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin, once busied himself by counting the number of years which some the main European countries spent at war. He found that Russia … had experienced only one peaceful quarter of a century in the previous thousand years; in every other period of twenty – five years she engaged in at least one foreign war. Since the year A.D. 901, he estimated, Russia had been at war in 46 of every hundred years. [1]
Further Reading
[1] Blainey, Geoffrey. The Cause of War. New York: The Free Press, 1973. Page 3
I have always heard it said; that peace brings riches; riches bring pride; pride brings anger; anger brings war; war brings poverty; poverty brings humanity; humanity brings peace; peace, as I have said, brings riches, and so the world’s affairs go round.
- Luigi da Porto, Italian historian [1]
Further Reading
[1] Blainey, Geoffrey. The Cause of War. New York: The Free Press, 1973. page 87
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