Peace Quotes by Kenneth Waltz

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

— Kenneth Waltz

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

— 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…

— Kenneth Waltz

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

— 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.

— 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…

— Kenneth Waltz

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

— 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…

— Kenneth Waltz

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

— 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…

— Kenneth Waltz

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

— Kenneth Waltz

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kenneth Waltz