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

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

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.

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

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

No system of balance functions automatically.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .