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... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one’s own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations. - Ruth Benedict
Attribution: Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. An Anthropologist at Work, part 4 (1959). From “Primitive Freedom,” a paper written in 1942.

Categories: Anthropologist, Human Nature, Peace, War: Positive Aspects

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