If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
