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.

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.

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.

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

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Not every heiress is famous. Or fun. There are a lot of boring heiresses out there.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.