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.

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

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.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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

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