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> [To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/to-build-a-theory-of-international-relations-on-accidents-of/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

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## More by Kenneth Waltz

> [Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/then-what-explains-war-among-states-rousseau-s-answer-is-really-that/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [External pressure seems to produce internal unity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/external-pressure-seems-to-produce-internal-unity/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/if-we-are-to-have-peace-we-must-learn-loyalty-to-a-larger-group-and/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/in-a-zero-sum-game-the-problem-is-entirely-one-of-distribution-not-at/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/states-in-the-world-are-like-individuals-in-the-state-of-nature-they/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/to-solve-these-problems-one-needs-as-much-an-understanding-of/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/the-most-important-causes-of-political-arrangements-and-acts-are/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/each-state-pursues-its-own-interest-s-however-defined-in-ways-it/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/to-build-a-theory-of-international-relations-on-accidents-of/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/according-to-the-first-image-of-international-relations-the-locus-of/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/war-may-achieve-a-redistribution-of-resources-but-labor-not-war/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/in-anarchy-there-is-no-automatic-harmony/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/if-we-gather-more-and-more-data-and-establish-more-and-more/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/the-implication-of-game-theory-which-is-also-the-implication-of-the/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

> [With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-waltz/with-many-sovereign-states-with-no-system-of-law-enforceable-among/)

[Kenneth Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-waltz/)

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