"Der Krieg als Institution war ebenso wie das Königstum und die Bürokratie eine neue Erfindung, etwa aus der Zeit um 3000 v. Chr. Damals wie heute lagen ihm keine psychologischen Faktoren, wie etwa die menschliche Aggression, zugrunde."
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Erich Fromm
1900 – 1980
aus dem Amerikanischen von Liselotte und Ernst Mickel, Rowohlt TB, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-499-17052-3; Original: "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" Holt, Rinehart & Winston, N.Y. 1973
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