War Before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley

“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from ‘progress’—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to disdain it. The privileged few who eat better, lead longer and more stimulating lives because of mass agriculture, medicine, education, mass communications, and travel, and are most cushioned from physical discomfort and inconvenience by industrial technology are the most nostalgic about the primitive world.”
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”Historical research has found that ‘disputes between trading partners escalate to war more frequently than disputes between nations that do not trade much with each other.’”
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”In Tahiti, a victorious warrior, given the opportunity, would pound his vanquished foe’s corpse flat with his heavy war club, cut a slit through the well-crushed victim, and don him as a trophy poncho.”

-Lawrence H. Keeley