In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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

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

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.

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

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

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.

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

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

It is always character first and story second.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?