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.

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

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.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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.