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

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

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

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

No system of balance functions automatically.

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 because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.