It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

No system of balance functions automatically.