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

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

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

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

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.

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.

No system of balance functions automatically.