feelings of ng 5. 'One of the contradictions of humanity is that people long for peace wh in Europe from 500 BCE to 1925 CE. "He documented 967 wars, an a is the normal state of society. Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin counted the the same time they glorify war, 2War is so common that a cynic might of one war every two or three years. "Counting years or parts of a ye warfare. "Spain's 67 percent gave it the dubious distinction of being the which a country was at war, at 28 percent Germany had the lowest recom war-prone. "Sorokin found that Russia, the land of his birth, had experien "Since the time of William the Conqueror, who took power in 1066, Eng only one peaceful quarter-century during the entire previous thousand y often. It is worth noting the history of the United States in this r was at war an average of 56 out of each 100 years. "Spain fought even m Since 1850, it has intervened militarily around the world about 160 times average of once a year. regn