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

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

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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.

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.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

Time flies with you

if you want to search, search who care about you, Don't search person for use, those who want use they will search you self.

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.