Frans de Waal Quotes
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.
de Waal, Frans. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. Crown Publishing Group, 2009.
There were many who believed that a thriving growth economy depended in part on wartime military spending levels. The issue is still controversial.
The speaker was specifically referring to the situation in Manipur India where there were several warring factions fighting for control.
He was referring to the national budget where so much money was spent on the military that there was little left over to finance new initiatives.
While it is true that thus far in human history war has been the only way, that does not necessarily mean that that is the only way. The establishment of free trade used to be only accomplished by force or arms or fear of such, but in modern times, common markets and trading zones are being created for economic and domestic desires for economic development. Even most non democratic countries have wanted to create a larger market for its goods and services and have joined larger organizations irrespective of military defeat and its fear. See {553984} for perspective and hope relating to this quotation.
Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory, and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics (1982) and Our Inner Ape (2005). His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
