Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple soci…

- Lloyd Demause

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations...…

- Lloyd Demause

Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than hi…

- Lloyd Demause

The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings …

- Lloyd Demause

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relat…

- Lloyd Demause

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians…

- Lloyd Demause

There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to …

- Lloyd Demause

Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early p…

- Lloyd Demause

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

- Lloyd Demause